One of the founders of the iranbacked Militant Group, which has been a major antagonist of israel for decades behind many deadly Terror Attacks as well. A short time ago, i asked a spokesman for the israeli defense forces if he believes that Nasrallahs Death has somehow weakened Irans Power in the region heres what he said i think wed be very cautious before saying that he run has been weakened. Again, rockets went off just a few minutes ago, just over my home On My Way here, there was a rocket that was intercepted and i had to do with my children who were very scared. Were not going to wage that iran, which is the largest supporter of Terror Tourism in the entire world, is weakened. What they do know is that theyve been hiding for years behind the proxies, being able to destroy an attack israel, terrorize israeli civilians without paying a price i see now as the proxy hezbollah, which has forced people out of their home and tortured their own people. And it all their Weaponry Bind the hind lebanese civilians is now paying a very serious Price Hezbollah is vowing to continue fighting despite this enormous blow to its leadership. It launched rockets the northern Israel Right before announcing Nasrallahs Death. Israel certainly not letting up its military activities. It launched further strikes into southern Beirut Today, targeting what the idf says were weapons, Storage Facilities for hezbollah. Those strikes along with the confirmation of Nasrallahs Death, have sent shockwaves through the region a fair amount of fear as well, regard party, a possible retaliatory response. Irans supreme leader said today that quote, all regional resistance forces are standing with hezbollah and the Countrys State media is just reporting that a senior iranian commander was among those killed in this israeli strike targeting nasrallah as well as death marks. A major escalation in a decades long conflict between Israel And Hezbollah, senior international correspondent, Ben Wedeman has more or on nasrallahs rise to power well wasnt nasrallah was hailed as a Resistance Fighter by his admirers terrorist, by his adversaries he became Secretary General of hezbollah in 1992 after israel assassinated his predecessor accessor. In his early 30s at the time, he went on to lead his group to become a formidable Military Force and a major player in lebanese and regional politics a. Decade earlier nasrallah attended a theological seminary and najaf, iraq or hamas, and returned to his native lebanon where during the 1982 israeli invasion, he urged his supporters to take up arms against the invaders. The beginnings of what became hezbollah party of god. The group was backed by iran and led by local clerics to harass the israeli occupiers the group is believed to have been behind a series of Terrorist Attacks in lebanon and abroad and during the 1980s, took dozens of westerners in Lebanon Hostage the growth of his bullet coincided with the emergence of the previously downtrodden and neglected Shia Community in lebanon as a major force and the country not sinaloa emerged as an adept gorilla commander, leading an unrelenting campaign against israeli forces during which his eldest son was killed in action the United States designated the group a terrorist organization in 1997 Hezbollah Struggle against israeli forces on lebanese soil continued until 2000 when in perhaps his proudest moment, israeli troops withdrew unconditionally from southern Lebanon And Israel, which has nuclear weapons and the best Air Force in the region, i swear to god, he said it is weaker than a Spiders Web but in 2006, Israel And Lebanon again, at war, the month long conflict left at least 1,000 lebanese civilians dead and devastated much of the Countrys Infrastructure Israel tried and failed to destroy hezbollah, which came out stronger than ever before after the war. His focus turned inward on his homeland, lebanon, where hezbollah increasingly became a key player in the countrys complicated politics and expanded its network of social services when war broke out in Neighboring Syria and 2011, nasrallah deployed hezbollah fighters to shore up president Bashar Al assads regime and also provided support to iraq during its war against isis. Iran was quick to reward nasrallah with money, weapons, and logistical support. But critics say his alliance with to headon inflamed sectarian tensions. And we can his credibility as a selfstyled defender of the palestinian people when the palestinian Militant Group hamas, his bullis ally, attacked israel on the 7 october 2023, killing more than 1,200 people in a ducting, more than 250 others his butler began firing into israel, opening what it calls all Day Support Front for gaza, for more than 11 months, Israel And Hezbollah exchanged fire across the border. Nasrallah said this would only stop once the war in gaza came to an end instead, more Fighting And Death followed in the form of Covert Operations by israel, which detonated hezbollahs wireless communications devices in broad daylight for two days in a row, the Home Button Helene Weekend Nasrallah called it an unprecedented blow to hamas, but then israels Bombing Campaign killed hundreds across lebanon. Yet until the very end, Hassan Nasrallah remained defiant Correspondent Jomana Karadsheh is live now in Brave Beirut and she joins us, giovanna i understand youve been Hearing Explosions behind you there well, jim, in the last few minutes, we had a map massive Air Airstrike that. Appears to have hit and im going to have our Camera Man Charbel here pan over. You can still see plumes of smoke rising from that area this is on the edge Of Beiruts Southern Suburbs that predominant i mean, shia area Of Beirut where you have a presence of big presence of hezbollah and its also so close to one of the christian areas Of Beiruts we are going to try and get more information on this this really jim has been the scene here across the Southern Suburbs Of Beirut, known as dahiyeh The Airstrikes have been very much constant since last night you had that massive strike that. Now, we know killed the leader of hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, and a few hours after that, the israeli military said that it was going to begin targeting what they said are hezbollah facilities. And store weapons, Storage Facilities. And they have been pounding the Southern Suburbs Of Beirut since last night. And what we have seen as a result of that, jim, we have seen a mass exited if people you have these really military initially in a post On X last night telling the people of certain neighborhoods to evacuate those areas of the Southern Suburbs for their safety. They said, but what we saw is not only people in those areas, but many other parts of the Southern Suburbs. This is one of the most densely populated parts of the country. Begin to leave that area late last night. I mean, we were driving around on the streets at 3 00 in the morning and we saw thousands of people who were out sleeping on the streets families, women carrying their children, people carrying whatever they could grab in this rush to get out and try and search for safety so yeah, this has been the scene here. Now for nearly the 24 hours, jim and everyone is bracing for what comes next Shock And Apprehension here in Beirut Today what reaction you and the team has seen there to Nasrallahs Death i know that to support to his supporters, he was a resistance leader. But there were others in lebanon who did not think very highly of him or of hezbollah. Have you seen both . Protests and celebrations well, what we have seen, jim, let me tell you just a few minutes before we got that statement. From hezbollah confirming that nasrallah was killed. We were speaking to supporters of hezbollah and they were they really believed that he was still alive. It was them telling us just wait and see. He will appeal here and he will come back with surprises, meaning that there will be more attacks and, a few minutes later we got that statement announced saying and confirming that he was indeed killed by that massive israeli strike yesterday. And what happened in immediately after that . You had an outburst of celebratory gunfire across different parts of the city. And this is in celebration his martyrdom. And this is something that many within his support base, if any muslims believe that the martyrdom should be celebrated. So youve had that. We also have had scenes of people on the street. Women wailing women fainting supporters, chanting their support for Hassan Nasrallah in the lobby of my hotel. Where were staying a woman was standing there crying and she broke down. She had to sit down and shoes crying just repeating. Oh god, oh lord, people are the sharp this for many of his supporters, for his loyal base this was an unfathomable scenario. Now, they are seeing this playing out and everyone is just wondering, jim, what comes next, because hezbollah put out that statement saying they will continue fighting. The question is, are they in in a position to continue fighting . We know that they are continuing their attacks on israel, but how much of an escalation could we be potentially . Seeing . And isnt going to involve other iranian backed proxies in the region the question of course, of what level of attack thanks, theyre capable of at this point, particularly as where you are the parts Of Beirut still under israeli attack. Jomana karadsheh in beirut. Thanks so much lets get more analysis, Military Analysis on these developments said cedric leighton, cnn Military Analyst retired us Air Force colonel. I wonder as you look, not just at this attack that has taken out the leader of hezbollah who really defined the group for some three decades, but the latest in a series of attacks acts that have targeted other Hezbollah Leaders, weapons, storage sites, and crucially, those pager attacks that struck many thousands because of hezbollah fighters and operatives, is it deeply, deeply wounded as a militant and as a Terrorist Group in terms of what it could carry out i think it is jim now that doesnt mean that this is a permanent that this is permanent damage to as the life. There are ways that groups like this have ever the possibility of morphing into something else they have a way of surviving a lot of this. But in this particular case at this particular moment in time the israelis have basically done several things. Theyve carried out a Decapitation Strike against the top leadership of hezbollah they also took out a lot of the middle tier of leadership and that makes it very difficult for an organization to exercise what we call Command And Control in a Military Sense so its going to be very hard for them to a group together to provide not only the support, but also the means for a coordinated strike against israel doesnt mean they cant do it, but it is definitely a much more difficult endeavor for them to do something like that. Then you couple that with the leadership strikes encompassing all the things you mentioned with the targeting in a geographic sense, where you going after entities in along the border between syria and lebanon, youre looking at the bekaa valley. View, of course, looking at southern lebanon where hezbollah has a large concentration of launch sites, all of those have been struck repeatedly by the idf, particularly by the israeli Air Force, as well as artillery and all of that is speaks to a very coordinated campaign on the israeli side to not only decapitate has been eliminated in a way that makes it very difficult for it to operate it possible that hezbollahs capabilities were somewhat exaggerated, that its proving to be something of a paper for tiger. And i dont want to underestimate those capabilities. And by the way, it has, it has been able to force the evacuation of some 60,000 israelis from northern and israel due to its Missile And Rocket barrages. There but of course, the fear had been that it could strike deep into israel, including where im standing right now in Tel Aviv with effect and you have these series of strikes now is it possible that it is less powerful than was imagine yes absolutely. Weve seen this several times. Times where we look at an adversary of force and we think that they are much stronger than they actually are. One of the key things about hezbollah was not only the fact that it was a terrorist or is a terrorist organization but it also of course has this vast arsenal of rockets and missiles. You, when you throw around numbers like 150,000 rockets yes. And missiles which has volos purported to have. Is that really means a lot of firepower is so worried about the firepower if youre on the other side of this, are you worried about the firepower . You worried about their ability to exercise that power into use those instruments, those weapons against you and in this particular case, what youre really looking at it is the fact that in this case, i think with the Command And Control links destroyed it becomes much more of a mamas want to say paper tiger, its not quite true because they are still extremely dangerous. But its much less of a lethal threat to israel than it was. Save the day before yesterday let me ask you then, perhaps a similar question about iran. What are irans military . Terry Capabilities Today to Strike Israel in april, we had what was then an unprecedented attack and its scale. Many dozens of missiles and drones fired at israel, but but few, if any reaching their target. Israels Missile Defenses, proving not just israels, we should note reach a regional network where could defenses that included us forces, but also allies in jordan, for instance, proven capable of neutralizing that threat might iran be facing . That same Question Today . What could it credibly do to Strike Israel in terms of retaliation yes, absolutely. And we saw that as you mentioned in april, jim that was an effort by iran in some ways to showcase their capabilities and to see if they could overwhelm the israeli Missile And Air defenses. But the fact that israel not only had those has those Missile And Air defenses but that they were connected to allied Air Defenses and Missile Defenses that made it really difficult for the Uranium Systems to penetrate that. Shell and this same thing holds true today. The iranians can throw a lot of stuff against israel, but the likelihood of succeeding is really quite low. Given the fact that the u. S is in a position to help as are other allied nations and israel, of course, is prime for just such an Eventuality Leighton thanks so much and still ahead this hour On Cnn newsroom, we are continuing to, of course, follow developments here in the Middle East concerns growing still about the possibility of an expanding war. What were hearing now from the White House will have a live report. And thats next Carb Winning is everythings stupid. Next saturday at seven On Cnn. It is amazing visitor, bioactive fulfilled. 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