An Israeli official has said that the IDF believes that Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah was inside of the compound hit in a Beruit airstrike earlier and that anyone inside would ” have a hard time getting out alive”.

The Israel Hebrew language newspaper Maariv Online tweeted: ” The IDF assesses: Hassan Nasrallah has been eliminated.”

Axios reporter Barak Ravid posted in Hebrew: “Senior Israeli: There are indications that Nasrallah was in the compound that was attacked. Those who were there have a very small chance of getting out alive.”

He added in a separate post: ” Two senior Israeli officials said that the first discussion on the possibility of eliminating Nasrallah took place on Wednesday before Netanyahu’s trip to the United Nations.

“According to them, it was decided to wait for an operational opportunity and it arrived today. Take him out of the decision-making picture.”

According to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, other high-level Hezbollah figures are said to have been killed in the attack including the commander of the southern front in the organisation, Ali Karchi, and the commander of the Quds Force in Syria and Lebanon Nilfroishian, was said to have been killed in the attack.

DF Spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said in an address today (Fri) the building targeted was at the centre of Hezbollah terror operations.

He said: “Hezbollah’s central headquarters was intentionally built under residential buildings in the heart of the Dahiyeh in Beirut as part of Hezbollah’s strategy of using Lebanese people as human shields.

The Jerusalem Post reports Iranian Tasnim News Agency claims Nasrallah survived the airstrike and the paper claims another Hezbollah source has supported this assessment.

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