Said nasrallah had been one of the countrys biggest enemies throughout history and his killing had made the world a better place. In their statement, hezbollah vowed that they would continue to confront their enemies, Support Gaza and palestine, and defend the people of lebanon. We can see plumes of smoke evident over several locations in tahir on saturday morning, following those strikes overnight. They have continued into today, with israel continuing to bombard parts of the city. The Israeli Military also attacking targets in the Bekaa Valley, they say, after detecting a rocket that had been fired from lebanon. So, lets remind ourselves just exactly who was Hassan Nasrallah . He was the leader of lebanons militant Shia Islamist Hezbollah movement, with close links to iran. He was one of the best known and most influential figures in the Middle East. Born in 1960, Hassan Nasrallah grew up in beirut� s Eastern Bourj Hammoud neighbourhood. Its he became leader of hezbollah in 1992 at the age of 32, after his predecessor Abbas Al Musawi was assassinated in an israeli helicopter strike. He played a Key Role in turning hezbollah into a powerful political and military force. Under his leadership he helped hezbollah Train Hundreds of fighters from the palestinian Militant Group hamas. And he also obtained missiles and rockets from iran for use against israel. In his most recent speech, nasrallah blamed israel for Detonating Thousands Of Pagers and Radio Handsets used by hezbollah members, which killed 39 people and wounded thousands more, and said it had crossed all red lines. He also acknowledged the group had suffered an unprecedented blow. A week after that speech, israel say hes dead. We can show you pictures by out colleagues from bbc arabic� S Team in beirut recorded in ain al mraiseh, a neighborhood in beirut. You can see people on the streets, wandering around in distress, taking whatever possessions they can carry with them, trying to find somewhere safe having been displaced from their homes in the southern suburbs of the city. This is hezbollah� s main stronghold. 0n hearing the news of the group confirming the death of Hassan Nasrallah, people are very distressed. Some saying they would rather they had died and nasrallah had survived. We have been covering quite a lot of the reaction from international leaders, and the russian Foreign Ministry now saying they are calling on israel to immediately cease hostilities. A lot of foreign leaders of course currently at the United Nations General Assembly in the United States. Russia strongly condemns israels killing of the Hezbollah Leader, says the russian Foreign Ministry. We have also had reaction from the president of iran, saying that he believes the United States must be complicit in the strikes that took place overnight. The us saying they knew nothing about what israel was going to be planning. Lets speak to yezid sayigh, who is a Senior Fellow at the carnegie middle East Center in beirut. He is also an expert in palestinian history. Thank you forjoining us on bbc news. What is your view on the impact the death of Hassan Nasrallah will have on hezbollah and the conflict we are seeing unfold . Are seeing unfold . Well, clearly. Are seeing unfold . Well, clearly, nasrallahs are seeing unfold . Well, | clearly, Nasrallahs Death are seeing unfold . Well, clearly, Nasrallahs Death will have a massive impact. But had he been killed outside the context of the ongoing war, things would have been different and hezbollah would have mourned him. But then gone through a Selection Process for his successor. But his death follows something like a ten Day Period in which, as your report mentioned, hezbollah first suffered hundreds, possibly thousands of injuries among its Rank And File from the Pager Attack and the Walkie Talkie attack, and has had pretty much all of its Military Command taken out by various israeli assassination raids. And so his death comes at well, the tail end, i dont want to say the end, for sure, i think israel will continue with many more attacks, obviously planned. But Nasrallahs Attack comes at a time when, clearly, Hezbollahs Ability to communicate internally has been jeopardised by the hard choice between exploding pagers or going on to conventional means such as Cell Phones which are more easily tracked by the israelis. How do they deal with this kind of situation . How do they deal with the obvious Security Loopholes they have been exposed to . How do they root out morals within their ranks . How do they replenish their stocks . Root out moles. Hundreds or thousands of its fighters killed or injured, but also mid level and top level command. In that sense, Nasrallahs Death marked definitively, in my view, the moment in which hezbollah is experiencing what to me is the equivalent of the Arab Israeli War of 1967, when the israelis launched a Surprise Attack on three arab armies and demolished their Air Forces on the ground and overran massive amounts of territory within six days. Its that combination of an operational and Intelligence Success on the israeli part that won the day in 1967. We are looking at something along those lines now with hezbollah. After 1967, the egyptian president rebuilt his armed forces, waged what he called a War Of Attrition with israel along the suez canal, and eventually this allowed egypt to regain territory in 1973, in another war. So i would say hezbollah, not trying to inflate its ability to rebuild and replenish, buti inflate its ability to rebuild and replenish, but i think, however hard it has been hit, this is simply not the end of the fight for it. Much diminished, but clearly it will go on, partly i think because it cant afford at this point not to continue the fight, because its domestic standing within lebanese politics will start to be very seriously undermined if it is seen to be unable to defend itself or to pick itself out and go back and fight again. Pick itself out and go back and fight again fight again. Hezbollah still has the Capacity Fight again. Hezbollah still has the capacity to fight again. Hezbollah still has the capacity to fire has the capacity to Fire Rockets into israel as well. Amongst the other casualties of the strikes last night, iran has confirmed one of its Quds Force commanders was killed. How far do you believe iran will be compelled to go, in terms of retaliation and a response . Terms of retaliation and a re5ponse . Terms of retaliation and a response . This clearly is a massive response . This clearly is a massive Provocation Response . This clearly is a massive provocation that L Response . This clearly is a massive provocation that goes beyond all previous ones such as the assassination of Hamas LeaderIsmail Haniyeh in the iranian Capital Tehran two or three months ago. Nonetheless, i think irans strategic position is to take the blows, absorb the losses, and to avoid being pushed into war that it does not seek at this time for a number of different reasons. I dont think they are ready to take on israel in a bigger war. And i think they are going to have to absorb this loss, in one way or the other. Crucially, i think there will not be a significant Military Response against israel. What they will probably be doing, i would have thought, is thinking about how to help hezbollah get back on its feet, deal with its Security Challenges and informers in its ranks, and other technological loopholes and vulnerabilities, and how to potentially learn the lessons of this conflict. I think hezbollah made the mistake in the past decade or so of preparing to fight the 2006 war all over again against israel in south lebanon. I dont think they were well prepared for what had happened. The next time around, if hezbollah do rebuild, they will rebuild integrating different kinds of tactics and technologies into how they operate. They might not even operate as a very large group which can bring 100,000 people into a rally with social welfare and so on. It might change in a number of ways we are yet to see. I just dont think they are ready to give up the fight. It would be very, very hard for them to pick themselves up from this. The feeling that iran would not defend them, we understand this is because iran sees them as serving its strategic deterrence, not the other way around. But i think that for a lot of hezbollahs communities, society within the sheer community, within its own ranks, that will shake them to the core. The shia community. The core. The shia community. The core. The shia communi. ~. ,. , the core. The shia communi. ~ community. We appreciate you talkinu community. We appreciate you talkin to community. We appreciate you talking to us. Lets speak now to nafiseh kohnavard, our Middle East correspondent. Shes in a part of beirut where many displaced people spent their night in a small park. Lebanese officials saying six people were killed and others injured overnight. Underlining again the humanitarian impact of israels actions. Of israels actions. Yes, exactly of israels actions. Yes, exactly. This of israels actions. Yes, exactly. This many of israels actions. Yes,. Exactly. This many people, of israels actions. Yes, exactly. This many people, you just see a few of them, but along the way that we were coming to downtown beirut, from the morning, we see Tens Of Familiesjust Sleeping in the morning, we see tens of families just sleeping in the street. They spend the night here. They say that they dont have a home. Many of them told us they dont have a house to go back to, because they are destroyed. The roads in tahir close, so they think any soon they cannot go back to their house. At the same time, there was three other aerial strikes today, targeting tahir right after the confirmation about the killing of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of hezbollah came. But let me explain the mood here. We have strange mood. Just minutes ago, suddenly we had celebration. And some of the hezbollah supporters that only a few minutes ago, they were crying, suddenly they started to dance and celebrate. We ask them, what happened . Apparently somehow they thought their leader is still alive, while hezbollah medial office in a statement Media Office in a statement, they confirmed that he is killed in these Air Strikes. But this is the mood. This is the mood, suddenly they got so jolly, they started to celebrate, they started to dance, they started to shout. Saying, he is alive, he is alive. 0n the other hand, we see angry people, angry because they are displaced, angry because they lost their leaders. Many of these people spend the night here, they came from tahir, of course, and many of them are hezbollah supporters. I of them are hezbollah supporters supporters. I suppose understandable supporters. I suppose understandable confusion and some will hope that the news was wrong. What are the authority is doing to try to get people to safety, as these Air Strikes continue notjust where you have been describing but also in the Bekaa Valley . To be honest, this morning, we havent seen any action by the government to take these people to safety. I asked them, have you tried the schools . They said, yes, they have, but the schools are already fully packed with people that fled from the south. They have been in the past few days, we have been reporting from one of the schools that was very close to the area hit yesterday. That school had taken more than 1000 people fled from the south. They told us they couldnt find any accommodation. They dont know if there is any accommodation. Now we hear that some churches have started to accommodate these people. There are efforts to open other schools. But soon, schools also it sells will start in lebanon, so there is a question how the government is going to manage all these displaced people, not only from the south and Southern Lebanon and Bekaa Valley, but also now, hundreds of people from tahir itself, the southern suburb of beirut. For the moment, thank you very much. Some comments coming from the United StatesDefence Secretary, Lloyd Austin. He said he had spoken twice with the israeli Defence Minister yoav gallant, On Friday, about events in lebanon. This is the pentagon quoting the Defence Secretary, mr austin. They go on to say, Lloyd Austin expressed full support for israels right to defend itself against iranian backed terrorist groups. He stressed as well that the United States, though, is determined to prevent Iran And Iran backed partners and proxies from exploiting the situation or expanding the conflict. He said the United States remains postured to protect us forces and facilities in the region, and facilities in the region, and committed to the defence of israel. The right, then, for israel. The right, then, for israel to defend itself. But for some who take a counter view, the death of the Hezbollah LeaderHassan Nasrallah, a group which is back very strongly by iran, is a provocation, we are told. We have been reporting that Israeli Military have been attacking targets in the Bekaa Valley, detecting a rocket fired from lebanon. We dont know quite where these missiles might be coming from, if there are any, but Air Raid sirens have been sounding in Tel Aviv and central israel as well. They may have been coming from yemen, according to Israeli Military. Thats the reason for those sirens in the centre of israel. Russia, for its part, urging israel to immediately cease Military Operations in lebanon. A great many of the world leaders and their foreign ministers of course in New York at the moment for the general assembly of the united nations. That is where the prime minister of israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, was when these strikes against the Hezbollah Leader took place last night. Israels Defence Minister has issued this statement about the killing of Hassan Nasrallah. The state of israel has eliminated Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of hezbollah. He was the leader of hezbollah. He was the murder of thousands of israelis and foreign citizens. He was an immediate threat to the life of thousands of israelis and other citizens. To our enemies, i say, israelis and other citizens. To our enemies, isay, we are strong and determined. To our partners, i would say, our war is your war. And to the people of lebanon, i say, our war is not with you, its time to change. Not with you, its time to change not with you, its time to chance. ,. � , change. Yoav gallant, israels Defence Minister. Anna foster spoke to ettie higgins, Deputy Representative of unicef lebanon. She told her what the situation is like on the ground in lebanon at the moment, after the israeli strikes in the country. Indeed we are finding an increasing number of unaccompanied and separated children, one particula