I everyone. Good Morning And Welcome to cnn this morning, it is saturday, september 28th. Im Amara Walker alongside Danny Freeman we begin this morning with major breaking developments in the middle east. The Israeli Military claims it has killed the leader of hezbollah after carrying out targeted airstrikes In Beirut. Israel says Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Terrorist Organization in several commanders were killed in a strike on what it says was hezbollahs headquarters, though hezbollah has not yet commented the announcement comes after more than a day of airstrikes by Israel On Eastern and Southern Lebanon. The explosions flattened buildings in a densely Populated Area the idf says, those residential Buildings House has built a weapons caches. According to the Lebanons Health Ministry, at least six people were killed and dozens wounded in the strikes. Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Lloyd austin says, israel did not notify the u. S. About the strikes until they were underway sour
Cnn special event, the Vice President ial debate. Tuesday at nine welcome to cnn this morning, it is saturday, september 28. Im Amara Walker alongside Danny Freeman and Jim Sciutto. We begin this morning with major breaking developments in the middle East Cnn Breaking News about a widening war in the Middle East east, the Israeli Military claims it has killed the leader of hezbollah after carrying out targeted airstrikes In Beirut, israel says Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Terrorist Organization in several commanders were killed in a strike on what it says was hezbollahs headquarters. Though hezbollah has not commented but there are concerns about a possible response. Hezbollah has fired rockets into israel, iran Supreme Leader says its forces are standing with hezbollah, but not mentioned specifically, nasrallah. And the chief of Israels Army warns that israel knows how to reach anyone who threatens its citizens meanwhile, the White House says, President Biden has been briefed o
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Anticipation is there will be a new wave of israeli strikes on the Southern Suburbs. This after the arabic spokesman for the israeli military put out a tweet warning, the residents of Southern Lebanon how valley in the Southern Suburbs of beirut to stay away from any hezbollah facilities. And given that hezbollah is a very secretive organization, most people dont actually know if there might be any hezbollah facilities in their immediate area. So the assumption is that if you are in one of those areas, you should simply leave and what weve seen is that tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of people have left those the areas specified by the israelis before the war, the population of those three areas in that tweet was around 2 Million in people according to lebanese officials in just the last few days almost half 1 Million people have fled and that was a number before We Saw this Mass Exodus from the Southern Suburbs of beirut. Now, were getting a new Death Toll from the le
Benjamin netanyahu saying the killing of nasrallah was quote necessary, and that israel will keep fighting we sit up accounts with these responsible for the murder of countless israelis and many citizens of other countries, including hundreds of americans in dozens of freshman, israel is on the move. We win. We are determined to continue to strike at our enemies return our residents to their homes and returned all of our hostages tonight, the u. S. State department is ordering nonemergency employees and their Family Members to leave lebanon at once. And we are covering every angle of this Breaking News. Ben wedeman is on the ground in the lebanese capital of beirut. Kevin liptack has more on the response from President Biden, the White House but lets start first with Nic Robertson, who is live in tel aviv. Nic talk about what could be next in this conflict for israel it does concern that tonight well it could launch a large salvo of its heavier, longerdistance ballistic missiles into t