Middle East countries and Hezbollah’s allies in the Tehran-aligned “Axis of Resistance” reacted on Saturday to the killing of Hassan Nasrallah after the Lebanon-based armed group confirmed the death of its leader in Israeli strikes.
Military officials in Israel announced Saturday morning that Nasrallah, who led Hezbollah for more than three decades, was killed in a bombing that targeted the group’s headquarters in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Friday night.
Hezbollah officially confirmed the death a few hours later.
Hezbollah
Hezbollah confirmed Nasrallah’s killing in a statement, saying he had “joined his great, immortal martyred comrades whom he led for nearly 30 years”.
The group said he was killed along with other members “following a treacherous Zionist attack on the southern suburbs of Beirut”.
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The Israeli military described the Hezbollah chief as one of Israel’s “worst enemies of all time.”
Military spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said, “Their elimination makes the world a safer place,” but Hagari said remaining senior members of the group would still be targeted.
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said that Nasrallah “deserved” to die.
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Iran, which provides weapons and finance to Hezbollah, said the direction Nasrallah has set for the Lebanese group, which has been engaged in cross-border firefights with Israeli forces for nearly a year, will be maintained.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said, “The glorious path of the resistance leader Hassan Nasrallah will continue and, God willing, his sacred goal in the liberation of Quds (Jerusalem) will be realized.”
Iran’s First Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref issued a warning to Israeli leaders that “the unjust bloodshed, especially of Hezbollah Secretary General Martyr Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, will bring their destruction,” Iran’s ISNA news agency quoted Aref as saying.
Hamas
The Palestinian group Hamas condemned Nasrallah’s killing “in the strongest terms” and criticized the attacks on southern Beirut as “barbaric Zionist aggression and targeting of residential buildings”.
“We consider this a cowardly terrorist act,” the group said in a statement, “expressing condolences and solidarity with Hezbollah and the brothers in the Islamic resistance in Lebanon on the martyrdom of Nasrallah.”
The Hezbollah chief said his fighters firing rockets across the border into Israel was in “support” of Hamas.
Yemen’s Houthis
Yemen’s Houthi rebels said Nasrallah’s killing would strengthen their resolve to confront their Israeli enemies.
“The martyrdom of Hassan Nasrallah will increase the flame of sacrifice, the heat of enthusiasm, the strength of resolve,” the rebels’ leadership council said in a statement. ,
Iraq
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani condemned the killing of the Hezbollah chief, saying “It is a crime that shows that the Zionist entity has crossed all red lines”.
In a statement, he called the Israeli attacks on South Beirut a “shameful attack” and described Nasrallah as a “martyr on the righteous path.”
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