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Hezbollah confirms its leader killed in Israeli airstrike
Bassem Mroue and Melanie Lidman
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Beirut | Lebanon’s Hezbollah group confirmed that its leader and one of its founders, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut the previous day.
A statement late on Saturday (AEST) said Nasrallah “has joined his fellow martyrs.” Hezbollah vowed to “continue the holy war against the enemy and in support of Palestine.”
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