Israel reportedly launched a missile barrage targeting Hezbollah's central headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon. The attack, which caused significant damage to buildings in a residential area, prompted no immediate response from Hezbollah regarding the fate of its leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
, according to a person familiar with information Israel provided to the United States after the attack, who spoke on the condition of anonymity about the sensitive matter.
Nasrallah has not been seen in person since the beginning of the 2006 war with Israel, eschewing any public appearances for video addresses out of fear of assassination. He had previously warned that “any assassination on Lebanese soil that targets a Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian, Iranian or others will certainly have a strong reaction”.People watch a speech by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on a TV screen in a cafe in the southern suburbs of Beirut last week.
One of his most triumphant moments was during the month-long war that Hezbollah militants and Israel waged in 2006. Three days into the conflict, he was speaking on air with Hezbollah’s Al-Manar channel and said the surprises he had promised were about to begin. Then an Israeli warship was targeted.Walid Phares, a Lebanese-born political commentator, told the Council on Foreign Relations in 2010 that Nasrallah was seen among some in Lebanon as a “messianic figure”.
That taught him that in Lebanon, “we cannot rely on the Arab League states, nor on the United Nations,” he said. “The only way that we have is to take up arms and fight the occupation forces”.Since the war began on October 7, when Hamas attacked Israel, Hezbollah and Israel have traded fire near the Israel-Lebanon border. At first, both sides stayed within the boundaries of decades-understood rules of engagement.
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