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You for joining us. I m jim sciutto live from tel aviv. We begin with breaking news this morning, a claim just in the last hour by israel that it has killed hezbollah s leader, hassan nasrallah in an airstrike in southern beirut. Yesterday, israel says nasrallah was killed but hezbollah has not yet commented and israeli official told cnn earlier that nasrallah was the target of the attack. And i was told in the last 24 hours that they had very high confidence. Nasrallah was on the site when the attack took place. This comes on the heels of israel s largest strikes on beirut in nearly 20 years, lebanon s news agency says israel also launched strikes in southern lebanon, as well as the eastern part of the country. This morning, hezbollah says it fired more rockets into northern israel in response we are also hearing that some hospitals in the southern part of beirut, an area targeted by israel yesterday, will now be evacuated. I m joined now by cnn s ben wedeman, who is in beirut and in ....
Cnn special event, the vice presidential debate. Tuesday at nine welcome to cnn this morning, it is saturday, september 28. I m amara walker alongside danny freeman and jim sciutto. We begin this morning with major breaking developments in the middle east cnn breaking news about a widening war in the middle east east, the israeli military claims it has killed the leader of hezbollah after carrying out targeted airstrikes in beirut, israel says hassan nasrallah, the leader of the terrorist organization in several commanders were killed in a strike on what it says was hezbollah s headquarters. Though hezbollah has not commented but there are concerns about a possible response. Hezbollah has fired rockets into israel, iran supreme leader says its forces are standing with hezbollah, but not mentioned specifically, nasrallah. And the chief of israel s army warns that israel knows how to reach anyone who threatens its citizens meanwhile, the white house says, president biden has been briefed ....
One of the founders of the iranbacked militant group, which has been a major antagonist of israel for decades behind many deadly terror attacks as well. A short time ago, i asked a spokesman for the israeli defense forces if he believes that nasrallah s death has somehow weakened irans power in the region here s what he said i think we d be very cautious before saying that he run has been weakened. Again, rockets went off just a few minutes ago, just over my home on my way here, there was a rocket that was intercepted and i had to do with my children who were very scared. We re not going to wage that iran, which is the largest supporter of terror tourism in the entire world, is weakened. What they do know is that they ve been hiding for years behind the proxies, being able to destroy an attack israel, terrorize israeli civilians without paying a price i see now as the proxy hezbollah, which has forced people out of their home and tortured their own people. And it all their weaponry bin ....
Hezbollah facilities. The idf continuing to launch what they call it targeted strikes against the iranbacked paramilitary group are cnn teams are witnessing one of those strikes and they did so earlier today following what was a punishing overnight barrage in the lebanese capital city of beirut. This latest strike happening just hours after his balah confirmed its leader, hassan nasrallah, was killed by an israeli attack on friday the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu issuing a statement saying that israel will continue its policies. And he also says he gave the order to assassinate his strava to ensure he could not rebuild the terror group was referring to mr. Alla earlier, i spoke with an idf spokesperson about what nasrallah is death potentially could mean for a potential conflict with iran. Listen to his answer i would suggest that iran look very closely how we ve dealt with hamas, the leadership of hamas, and how in the last weekandahalf, we ve effectively decapitated hezb ....
News you are in the cnn newsroom. I m jessica dean in new york and we begin with breaking news in growing fears of what may be next in the middle east, just moments ago, has bloc announcing it launched long range missiles from lebanon toward jerusalem. After the confirmed death let s top leader hassan nasrallah and in israel in an israeli airstrike in beirut yesterday tonight, there are questions about what remains of hezbollah s leadership and what a potential response might look like. For israel s part moments ago, prime minister benjamin netanyahu said israel has arrived at a quote, historic turning point, saying that israel is killing was necessary for achieving its goals me, she up kid bono in iran or the middle east. The long arm of israel will not reach and today, you already know about true. This is a machine the wreck could that be all of this is the u. S. State department is ordering nonemergency employees and their family members to leave lebanon immediately we have team cov ....