On Saturday, authorities of the Lebanese Resistance Movement Hezbollah confirmed the death of its leader Hassan Nasrallah. Israel had previously bombed the movement's headquarters in Beirut.
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00:00We have breaking news right now, where Hassan Nasrallah was announced killed during an airstrike
00:11by the Israeli forces in the Beirut, capital of Lebanon.
00:19Hezbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, has been killed in an airstrike on Lebanon, capital
00:27of Beirut, according to the Israel military and the Lebanese group, in what is a significant
00:33blow to Hezbollah as it reels from an escalating campaign of Israeli attacks.
00:40Hassan Nasrallah is dead.
00:42Israeli military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Davar Shoshani announced an exe this Saturday.
00:51The Kargid, the commander of Hezbollah Southern Front and additional Hezbollah commanders
00:56were also killed in a massive airstrike in Beirut's southern suburbs of Dahiyel on Friday,
01:03the Israeli military said.
01:05The strike leveled six apartment buildings, while injuring 91 people, according to Lebanon's
01:12health ministry.
01:15Most of the senior leaders of Hezbollah have been eliminated, Shoshani said.
01:20Hezbollah confirmed Nasrallah's death later on Saturday and pledged to keep up the fight
01:25against Israel in support of Gaza and Palestine and in defense of Lebanon and its steadfast
01:31and honorable people.
01:33The statement confirmed Nasrallah was killed with another group members following the third
01:41Shurout Zionist strike on the southern suburbs of Beirut.
01:48Hezbollah's military said the country is on a high alert following his killing.
01:54Nasrallah, 64, led the Iran-backed group for more than 32 years, serving as a political
02:00and spiritual leader who guided Hezbollah to a place of prominence in Lebanon.
02:07Among his supporters, the Shah's leader was lauded for standing up to Israel and defending
02:16the United States.
02:17To his enemies, he was the head of a terrorist organization and a proxy of Iran on its treacherous
02:26foreign influence in the Middle East.
02:29Nasrallah is the largest-than-life figure when it comes to the politics in the Middle
02:35East.
02:36He is the figurehead of Iran's leadership, if you will, said Al-Jazeera's Stephanie
02:43Deckard.
02:44He really created Hezbollah into the organized fighting discipline force that it is today.
02:51He is not just a symbolic figure, he is behind the strategic thinking, the military thinking
02:57at Al-Jazeera's senior corps from Beirut.
03:01No doubt this will be a major setback for the organization.
03:06Nasrallah's regional influence was on display over nearly a year of conflict engaged by
03:11the Gaza War, as Hezbollah intruded prior by the firing on Israel from southern Lebanon
03:19in support of its Palestinian ally, Hamas.
03:23While conflict with Israel largely defended Nasrallah's leadership, he was a divisive
03:31figure in Lebanon and the wider Arab world due to Hezbollah's operation in Syria and
03:38beyond.
03:40Nasrallah also had numerous domestic foes, including Sunni and Arab political forces,
03:46which Hezbollah has clashed with.
03:49In the years before his death, he was rarely seen in public due to security concerns.
03:55Israel military, in its statement announcing Nasrallah's killing, accused the leader of
04:01being responsible for the murder of many Israeli civilians and soldiers, and the planning and
04:09execution of thousands of terrorist activities.
04:15While many in Israel celebrated the killing of Nasrallah, Israel's military said it still
04:20had a way to go in the fight against Hezbollah and will continue targeting its leaders.
04:26Hezbollah still has a rocket and missiles and has the capability of shooting many of
04:32them simultaneously, said Shoshani, adding that the Iran-backed group was believed to
04:38have 10,000 rockets.
04:43In a statement released just shortly, Hezbollah announced the martyrdom of Secretary General
04:49Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah following years of sacrifice on the path of resisting against
04:54the Israeli entry.
04:56Sayyid Hassan was martyred in the unprecedented massive Israeli airstrike on a residential
05:04neighborhood in Hared Herg yesterday.
05:07The resistance statements in my part unread, his eminence, leader of the resistance, said
05:15the poised servant of God, has passed on to God as a great leader, a great martyr, joining
05:23the martyrs of Karbala on the path of prophets.
05:27Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary General of Hezbollah, joined his great eternal companions
05:34whose journey he led for over 30 years, including them in victory after victory, after the succeeding
05:43Sayyid Abdel and Mousavi in 1992, through the liberation of Lebanon in the 2000s, and
05:52the divine victory in 2006, and up to the battle of support of Palestine and the oppressed
05:58people of Palestine.
06:00The resistance leadership promised martyr Sayyid Hassan to continue the struggle against
06:05the enemy in support of Gaza and Palestine, and in defense of Lebanon and its honorable
06:10resilient people.
06:11The resistance concludes its statement by addressing the freedom fighters of resistance.
06:18You who heard his truth, shows our leader that this year still lives among us through
06:24his thoughts of spirit and his holy path.
06:39That was the information announced in the statements of the Hezbollah movement and the
06:45killing by the Israeli forces against Sayyid Nasrallah and other members of Hezbollah.
06:52We will keep informing.