(Times of Israel) The body of Hezbollah terror chief Hassan Nasrallah was recovered from the site of an Israeli airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburbs on Sunday, a medical source and a security source told Reuters.
Hezbollah’s statement on Saturday confirming Nasrallah’s death did not say how exactly he was killed nor when his funeral would be.
But the two sources said his body had no direct wounds and that it appeared the cause of death was blunt trauma from the force of the blast.
A short clip circulated later by Lebanese media outlets purported to show the moment the body was recovered from the terror group’s underground headquarters in Beirut.
فيديو للحظة إنتشال جثة الامين العام لحزب الله السيّد حسن نصرالله من موقع الضربة الإسرائيلية في الضاحية الجنوبية pic.twitter.com/RVrFFRJrNc
— Lebanon 24 (@Lebanon24) September 29, 2024
Alongside the leader of the Iran-backed terror group, more than 20 Hezbollah operatives were killed in the massive airstrike in Beirut, the Israel Defense Forces said Sunday.
According to the military, among those killed at Hezbollah’s underground headquarters on Friday in the Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut were:
- Ali Karaki, the commander of Hezbollah’s Southern Front.
- Ibrahim Hussein Jazini, head of Nasrallah’s personal security unit.
- Samir Tawfiq Deeb, an advisor to Nasrallah.
- Abd al-Amir Muhammad Sablini, responsible for Hezbollah’s force build-up.
- Ali Nayef Ayoub, responsible for Hezbollah’s firepower.
53 meters. That’s the distance between a @UN school and Hezbollah’s underground headquarters where Hassan Nasrallah was eliminated alongside 20+ additional terrorists.
The terrorists were in Hezbollah’s central headquarters, located in the heart of Beirut, embedded beneath… pic.twitter.com/eTor8mBGhU
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) September 29, 2024
The IDF said that Jazini and Deeb were among the closest people to Nasrallah, and as such were “a significant source of knowledge regarding the ongoing functioning of the Hezbollah terror organization and Nasrallah in particular.”
Hezbollah on Sunday confirmed that Karaki, who was responsible for the terror group’s military activity in south Lebanon, had been killed in the massive strike on Friday. Karaki had survived an Israeli assassination attempt earlier last week.
Following the announcement of Karaki’s death, a purported image of the commander circulated on social media.
الله بلم المشهد
خذ حتى ترضى
الشهيد القائد الجهادي الكبير الحاج علي كركي
ابو الفضل pic.twitter.com/UlTyEKV23j— محمد علي خليل (@khalil_mohmdali) September 29, 2024