Body of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah ‘tactfully’ recovered from attack site in Beirut | World News

Sources said the body of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was recovered from the site where he was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Friday.

NasrallahAccording to a medical and security source, Dahieh’s body was found “intact” in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahieh – where senior members of the militant group were gathered.

He was found without any direct injuries and is believed to have died as a result of the explosion.

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In the statement confirming his death on Saturday, Hezbollah called him a “martyr.”

On Sunday, the group confirmed that senior Hezbollah official Ali Karaki was also killed in Friday’s attack.

Footage from the site – a residential area of ​​the Lebanese capital – shows a huge crater between high-rise buildings.

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Meanwhile, both Israel and Hezbollah continued to launch attacks on Sunday.

Rockets were fired at Israel, but no deaths or injuries were reported.

Eleven people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the northeastern Lebanese village of al Ain on Sunday, according to the Lebanese state news agency.

Six of the bodies had been recovered, but rescuers were still searching the rubble of the destroyed house for the remaining five, it said.

The Israeli military claims to have struck dozens more Hezbollah targets in the last 12 hours, including one that killed Nabil Kaouk, another senior leader of the group. However, this has not been confirmed by Hezbollah.

According to the Lebanese Ministry of Health, 33 people were killed and another 195 injured in attacks on Saturday.

They are among around 1,000 dead and 6,000 injured caused by Israeli airstrikes in the past two weeks, it is said.

A million displaced people

The number of displaced people across the country rose from 300,000 to almost a million in just a few hours, said Nasser Yassin, head of Lebanon’s civil protection agency.

Lebanon has one of the largest refugee populations per capita in the world – with 1.5 million Syrian refugees and 2,500 Palestinians – out of a population of around 3.5 million.

In its first statement since Nasrallah’s death, the Lebanese military called for calm in “this dangerous and delicate phase” of the conflict.

Tanks have gathered on the Israeli side of the border – the strongest indication yet that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is preparing a ground invasion.

Israel says the latest attacks were designed to protect northern areas of the country from Hezbollah rocket fire – and to allow Israelis displaced since Hamas invaded on October 7 to return home.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have vowed to “eliminate the commanders of the terrorist organization Hezbollah and take action against anyone who threatens the citizens of the State of Israel” – while Mr Netanyahu described Nasrallah as “not another terrorist” but “the terrorist” .

Hezbollah describes its attacks on Israel as a “holy war against the enemy and in support of Palestine.”

Nasrallah led Hezbollah for 32 years and successfully turned it into Iran’s most influential deputy.

Thousands of people gathered to protest his killing in the capital Tehran – and other cities across the Arab world.

According to Iranian state media, the attack that killed Nasrallah on Friday also killed a senior member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, Abbas Nilforushan.