In response to the news, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed approval for the targeted killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, asserting that the volatile situation in the Middle East would require more than just his elimination to find resolution.
“We have some great achievements, but we haven’t completed the task at hand yet,” Netanyahu said.
“The devastating blows leveled at Hezbollah by the IDF will not be enough.”
Hezbollah said Nasrallah got killed on Friday in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut.
“There is no place in Iran, nor in the Middle East, where the long arm of Israel cannot reach,” Netanyahu said.
A statement from Hezbollah also on Saturday said Nasrallah “has joined his great immortal martyr comrades.”
The confirmation came right after the Israeli army said they took down Nasrallah, after doing a massive attack on Lebanon the day before.
The IDF said Ali Karki, the Hezbollah commander of the southern front, was also taken out in the strike.