Tel Aviv CNN —The Israeli military claims that Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in Friday’s airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon.
Israeli fighter jets targeted the headquarters of the militant group, located in an area of the capital’s southern suburbs known as Dahiyeh, the Israeli military said in a statement on Saturday.
Israeli strikes razed buildings to rubble, and killed at least six people, according to the country’s health ministry.
The IDF said it was targeting what it alleges are buildings used by Hezbollah as command centers, weapons productions and storage sites.
Hezbollah has denied that its weapons are being stored in civilian buildings targeted by Israeli strikes.
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