Welcome back to the weekend, we began with Breaking News out of The Middle East. Hezbollah has now confirmed israel killed its longtime leader. Just last hour the spokesperson for the israeli military confirmed that. His killing under the command of, Choice Chuck chose to join the war that hamas started. There are consequences for that decision. Aaron mcglocklin is live in tel aviv. Bring us up to speed on the latest list our. Symone, around 6 00 yesterday evening, a massive explosion rocked the city of beirut and minutes later, israeli officials were Briefing Members of the press that he was the target of an israeli airstrike on a residential building. They were saying that the Command And Control headquarters for hezbollah was located under then the building. And there was a question whether they had carried out the assassination effectively. They released the Audio Exchange between the Fighter Pilot who carried out the attack and his commander moments after the airstrike was carried
Longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, and strikes last night on Apartment Complex In Beirut. Israel claims that hezbollah was using the complex as in underground headquarters. This represents a major escalation of the backand forth between Israel And Hezbollah, which israel has intensified in the last couple weeks. The strikes killed several other Highranking Hezbollah officials and the iranian State News that says in revolutionary Guard General was killed in the same strike. Lebanon lawns and more than 100 wounded in the strikes. That number is expected to rise. Nasrallah is a travertine cleric, who has led the group since 1992 and has grown the group in most powerful Running Back and forth and the reason both militarily and political terry. It is what is called a state within a state. He also led the group through decades of conflict with israel, participate in the Syrian Civil War On Behalf of of the regime and help back others in the region including the houthis in yemen. The national
Israeli officials are bracing for reaction. The idf says it intercepted a missile over central israel that have been launched from yemen. Israel continues to pound targets Inside Lebanon, large plumes of smoke can be seen all day rising over the south. Ri in iran, antiisrael protesters took to the streets of the Capital City and that countrys Supreme Leader declared five days of mourning, urging his people to stand with hezbollah. In the u. S. , President Biden said he has directed secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to further enhance the Defense Posture of Military Forces in The Middle East to deter aggression and reduce the risk of a broader regional war. We have reporters and analysts in place around the World Right in with all these new developments first. First, Matt Bradley joined us again from beirut. Matt, give us a sense of how tense it is in Lebanons Capital this evening. Reporter tense, and oni hav to say, alex, mournful, People Y are crying in the streets, wailing out. This
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