Nasrallah is alive, but contact has been lost…Hezbollah said after the Israeli attack
The conflict between Hezbollah and Israel has become fierce. The attack in Beirut shook the Lebanese capital about an hour after Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech at the United Nations General Assembly. Israel claimed that the IDF (Israel Defense Force) targeted the Hezbollah headquarters with 60 bunker rockets.
According to news agency Reuters, an Israeli official says that the target of this attack was Hezbollah's top commander, but it would be premature to say whether Hezbollah chief Nasrallah was killed in the attack or not. At the same time, the Israeli army says that no one present at Hezbollah's headquarters survived this attack. It is being claimed that Nasrallah, his daughter, and his brother Hashim have died in the attack.
'Nasrallah is alive but contact is lost'
On the other hand, a source close to Hezbollah told Reuters that Nasrallah is alive and Iran's Tasnim news agency has also claimed that he is safe. A senior Iranian security official told Reuters that Tehran is also investigating the whereabouts of the Hezbollah chief.
According to media reports, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has not been contacted since the Israeli attacks on the southern suburbs of Beirut. Nasrallah did not give any statement a few hours after the attacks. On the other hand, Israeli officials say that if Nasrallah is alive, it will be known immediately, but if he is dead, it may take some time.
Nasrallah became Hezbollah chief in 1992
Hassan Nasrallah took command of Hezbollah in 1992 when he was just 35 years old. It is believed that Iran's Revolutionary Guards founded Hezbollah in 1982 to fight against Israel, and in the 90s Nasrallah had become the biggest face of this organization. Earlier, Hezbollah chief Sayyed Abbas al-Musawi was killed by Israel in a helicopter attack.
If Hezbollah is not stopped, we will be finished: Israel.
According to news agency Reuters, the official who briefed journalists in New York on the condition of anonymity said that if we do not stop Hezbollah, we cannot survive. Defending the Israeli action in Lebanon, he said that we cannot keep our people as refugees on our own land, so we have waged a war to reduce the power of Hezbollah and push it back in order to resettle our people. The Israeli official says that the Israeli army tried to destroy half of the missiles and rockets that Hezbollah had collected with the support of Iran in the last 3 decades and destroyed them in a few hours.