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^{Hassan Nasrallah. Source / Извор: Middle East Eye}

Аутоматски превод на српски језик

The Lebanon-based militant group has confirmed Hassan Nasrallah was killed by an Israeli airstrike on a Beirut suburb

Nasrallah, 64, is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the Middle East and has earned a reputation as a sworn enemy of Israel. The cleric assumed leadership of Hezbollah in 1992 and played a major role in increasing the group’s strength and clout. Under his watch, it acquired longer-range rockets that allowed it to strike northern Israel, while continuing to support the Palestinian armed group Hamas in Gaza and maintaining close ties with Iran.

After claiming earlier that its strikes in Beirut had taken out the Secretary General of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs posted a graphic appearing to show that all but one of the Iran-backed organization’s leadership had been killed.

^{Source / Извор: IDF / Military Chronicle}

According to Military Chronicle, one commander – Abu Ali Rida – remains alive.

Although the elimination of Hezbollah leadership can look like a victory, it will actually make the resistance even greater. It is a matter of survival. Iranian religious leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has announced it:

“Israel should know that it is too small to cause any major damage to the powerful infrastructure of Hezbollah in Lebanon. All Muslims are obliged to stand proudly with the people of Lebanon and help with Hezbollah in opposing Israel”, the Ayatollah said.

Aside of that, Hezbollah could soon announce Hashem Safiedin as its secretary general, who will replace Nasrallah, NYT reports. Hashem Safiedin is a prominent figure in Hezbollah, currently serving as head of the movement’s Executive Council. He is also a relative of Hassan Nasrallah.

He has close ties to Iran and is related to Qassem Soleimani — his son is married to the daughter of Qassem Soleimani, the former commander of Iran’s Quds Force who was killed by the Americans on a highway near the Baghdad airport.

^{Hashem Safiedin. Source / Извор: SrbijaRusija @Telegram}

In his usual diplomatic manner, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov, also reacted: “Some people are really very, very eager to see a large-scale conflict in the region. The spiral of violence went far beyond the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone”, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at the UN Security Council meeting.

Hmmm, who could be those “some people”?

Israel already lost the war with Hamas, it lost the ‘legitimacy war’, with a genocide in Gaza it squandered all the ‘moral ground’ gained on the victims of WWII, it lost the propaganda war, but… The current leadership of Israel can only survive in the conditions of forever war.

It is hard to guess the contents of psychopathic minds, but they obviously think that an escalation with the neighbouring countries is favourable to them. Have they been watching too much Hollywood movies where the US Army is the strongest force in the known Universe? Do they expect Hulk to save them? Or their ‘Messiah’?