Netanyahu on Israeli killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah [Video]

Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a neighborhood in Beirut’s southern suburb early on September 28, 2024.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday commended the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and said his death would not be enough to end the proliferating conflict in the Middle East.

“We have some great achievements, but we haven’t completed the task at hand yet,” Netanyahu said, according to a translation by NBC News. “The devastating blows leveled at Hezbollah by the IDF will not be enough.”

Hezbollah confirmed that Nasrallah was killed on Friday in an Israeli airstrike in the Lebanese capital of Beirut.

“There is no place in Iran, nor in the Middle East, where the long arm of Israel cannot reach,” Netanyahu said.

A statement from Hezbollah also on Saturday said Nasrallah “has joined his great immortal martyr comrades.” The confirmation came just a …