Satellite pics show smoke and ruins at site of Hezbollah chief’s killing

Days after the death of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in a “precision strike” carried out by the Israel Defence Forces, India Today’s OSINT team accessed satellite images showing the extent of damage from the Israeli strikes.
After the attack, the Israeli military said that it had eliminated Nasrallah in the strike on the group’s central command headquarters in Beirut’s southern suburbs on Friday, September 27.
Visuals from the ground showed two buildings before the attack that were turned into rubble in the strikes by the Israeli forces.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a statement, described the killing of Nasrallah as a necessary step toward “changing the balance of power in the region for years to come.”

Satellite pictures show a building reduced to rubble after strikes from Israel in Lebanon’s Beirut.

“Nasrallah was not a terrorist, he was the terrorist,” Netanyahu said in a statement.

Plumes of smoke coming out from the building that was targeted by the Israel Defence Forces to neutralise Hezbollah’s chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

Nasrallah’s death marks a devastating blow to Hezbollah, which has been in armed conflict with Israel since Hamas’ assault on Israel on October 7, 2023. After announcing Nasrallah’s death, the group said it will continue its battle against Israel “in support of Gaza and Palestine, and in defence of Lebanon and its steadfast and honourable people”.

Several buildings were damaged at the site of the assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut’s southern suburbs.

Nasrallah led Hezbollah for more than three decades and was pivotal in establishing the outfit as a political-militant group in the region. With his killing, Israel is hopeful of dismantling the group’s power structure and pushing the group away from its borders.