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Nasrallah, the chief of Lebanon-based Hezbollah since 1992, was killed in an enormous Israeli airstrike on Friday.
In the identical airstrikes, the Israeli military additionally killed Abbas Nilforoushan, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s deputy commander in Beirut. Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Sunday threatened retaliation, saying “this horrible crime dedicated by the Zionist regime [Israel] is not going to go unanswered,” Reuters reported.
While Israel continued its airstrikes towards Hezbollah targets in Lebanon on Sunday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) introduced that one other Hezbollah chief, Nabil Qaouk, had been killed in a bombing on Saturday.
Western leaders have repeatedly known as for a cease-fire and at the moment are bracing for the worst.
“The area is critically risking a full-blown warfare,” European Union chief diplomat Josep Borrell mentioned Saturday as he known as for an instantaneous cease-fire.
While welcoming the killing of Nasrallah as “a measure of justice,” United States President Joe Biden on Saturday mentioned he requested the Pentagon “to additional improve the protection posture of U.S. army forces within the Middle East area to discourage aggression and scale back the danger of a broader regional warfare.” Biden instructed confidantes and allies in personal final week that he didn’t consider that the Israeli chief needed a halt to hostilities with Hezbollah.
France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot on Sunday afternoon flew to Lebanon to fulfill with native authorities and to reaffirm French assist for the Lebanese folks, together with by way of humanitarian support, his workplace mentioned. French President Emmanuel Macron final week warned that “Lebanon mustn’t turn into the brand new Gaza.”
At the identical time, Israel is on “excessive alert” for potential retaliation after killing Nasrallah. On Sunday, Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf reportedly mentioned that militant teams within the Middle East, together with Hezbollah, “is not going to hesitate to go to any degree” to struggle towards Israel.
