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Israel killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in an airstrike on the militant group’s headquarters in Beirut’s Dahiyeh neighborhood on Friday, in a dramatic escalation of fighting between the two sides. The attack occurred just an hour after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

The assassination of Nasrallah, who led Hezbollah for more than three decades, was part of a broad military campaign against the Iran-backed organization in recent weeks, in which Israel struck more than a thousand targets across Lebanon and remotely detonated pagers and walkie-talkies used by the group’s members.

Israel killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in an airstrike on the militant group’s headquarters in Beirut’s Dahiyeh neighborhood on Friday, in a dramatic escalation of fighting between the two sides. The attack occurred just an hour after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

The assassination of Nasrallah, who led Hezbollah for more than three decades, was part of a broad military campaign against the Iran-backed organization in recent weeks, in which Israel struck more than a thousand targets across Lebanon and remotely detonated pagers and walkie-talkies used by the group’s members.

Hezbollah confirmed Nasrallah’s death in a statement on Saturday and pledged to “continue its jihad in confronting the enemy [Israel], in support of Gaza and Palestine.” The statement did not mention who would succeed Nasrallah.

Israel and Hezbollah are longtime enemies and fought a direct war in 2006 that lasted just over a month, ending in a stalemate. The current conflict dates back nearly a year to Oct. 8, 2023, when Hezbollah began firing rockets on Israel in solidarity with Hamas, which had carried out a bloody attack on the country on Oct. 7, sparking the war in........

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