You for joining us. Im Jim Sciutto live from Tel Aviv. We begin with Breaking News this morning, a claim just in the last hour by israel that it has killed hezbollahs leader, Hassan Nasrallah in an airstrike in Southern Beirut. Yesterday, israel says nasrallah was killed but hezbollah has not yet commented and israeli official told cnn earlier that nasrallah was the target of the attack. And i was told in the last 24 hours that they had very high confidence. Nasrallah was on the site when the attack took place. This comes on the heels of israels largest strikes on beirut in nearly 20 years, Lebanons News Agency says israel also launched strikes in Southern Lebanon, as well as the eastern part of the country. This morning, hezbollah says it fired more rockets into Northern Israel in response we are also hearing that some hospitals in the southern part of beirut, an area targeted by israel yesterday, will now be evacuated. Im joined now by cnns Ben Wedeman, who is In Beirut and in ben, w
Blitzer in washington in for fredricka whitfield. Were standing by for major Breaking News right now significant developments unfolding in the Middle East right now, another huge Explosion Rocking Beirut Just A Little while ago in the last hour or so, as israel continues its punishing airstrikes On Hezbollah forces in the lebanese capital. This as we learn, the leader of one of the most powerful paramilitary forces in the Middle East was killed in one of those strikes around backed Militant Group hezbollah, confirming its secretary general Hassan Nasrallah was killed in israeli bombing in beirut On Friday, around State Media says a senior iranian commander was also among those killed in that blast. Nasrallah was one of his balahs founders playing a key role in its formation. And the targeting of israel for over four decades. If his death igniting fears of a wider conflict in the region, those fears, fear of very vague very serious right now iran Supreme Leader saying today that all reg
News you are in the Cnn Newsroom. Im Jessica Dean in New York and we begin with Breaking News in growing fears of what may be next in the middle east, just moments ago, has bloc announcing it launched long range missiles from lebanon toward jerusalem. After the confirmed death lets top leader Hassan Nasrallah and in israel in an israeli airstrike in Beirut Yesterday tonight, there are questions about what remains of Hezbollahs Leadership and what a potential response might look like. For Israels Part moments ago, prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said israel has arrived at a quote, historic turning point, saying that israel is killing was necessary for achieving its goals me, she up kid bono in iran or the middle east. The long arm of israel will not reach and today, you already know about true. This is a machine the wreck could that be all of this is the u. S. State department is ordering nonemergency employees and their Family Members to leave lebanon immediately we have Team Coverag
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