Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrullah killed, claims Israel

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Dhaka: Israel has claimed that Hassan Nasrallah, head of the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, has been killed.

On Saturday (September 28), CNN reported that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrullah was killed in an airstrike in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, on Friday (September 27).

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Hezbollah did not comment when contacted by CNN to confirm the identity of the deceased.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said.

In a statement on the IDF's X account, Hassan Nasrallah will no longer be able to terrorize the world.

According to the statement, besides Hasan Nasrallah, the commander of Hezbollah's southern front was killed.

According to the international media reports, it is feared that the head of the organization, Hassan Nasrullah, will be killed in this attack targeting the headquarters of Hezbollah.

There was no immediate confirmation of Nasrullah's fate after Friday's massive bombing. But a source close to Hezbollah told Reuters the Hezbollah chief is alive and well.

Top Hezbollah commanders were targeted, a senior Israeli official said. Hours after the attack, Hezbollah has not released any statement on the whereabouts of its leader.

Iran's news agency Tasnim News reported that the head of Hezbollah is safe. A senior Iranian official told Reuters that Tehran was trying to ascertain his location.

The Israeli army said in a statement that it had killed the commander of Hezbollah's missile unit, Mohammad Ali Ismail, and his deputy, Hossein Ahmed Ismail.

Hassan Nasrullah (64) was born in 1960 in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. He was grown up in the Burj Hammoud neighborhood on the eastern outskirts of Beirut. Father Abdul Karim was a simple vegetable seller. Nasrullah was the eldest among his 9 children.

In 1975, when Lebanon was facing a civil war, Hassan Nasrullah joined the Shia movement 'Amal'. Later spent some time in Najaf, Iraq, in an educational institution of the Shia Muslim community. From there, he returned to Lebanon and joined Amal again. In 1982 he left the party along with some others. Israel invaded Lebanon a few days before this incident.

'Islamic Amaal' was established after breaking away from Amaal. The group receives notable military and organizational support from neighboring Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Lebanon's Bekaa Valley-based group 'Islamic Amal' later established itself as the most prominent and effective Shia militia group. At one stage it became the armed Hezbollah organization.

Nasrullah became the head of Hezbollah in 1992 at the age of 32. Earlier, his predecessor Abbas Al-Musabi was killed in an Israeli helicopter attack.