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Hezbollah has just confirmed the death of its leader – Hassan Nasrallah. Here are some of the other key developments from the last few hours:
- A series of air strikes were carried out by Israel on Beirut on Friday – these were accompanied by reports that Nasrallah was a target
- Israeli air strikes on Lebanon continued into this morning, as our correspondent in Beirut described seeing smoke rising over the capital’s southern suburbs
- Hezbollah has also reported firing rockets into Israel today – with the IDF acknowledging having identified and intercepted some
- Meanwhile, we heard this morning about people being displaced overnight from the southern suburbs of Beirut and sleeping on streets or in their cars
- At around 09:00 BST the IDF said they had killed Nasrallah, along with other senior members of Hezbollah, in a strike on the group’s central headquarters in Dahieh
- The Iranian-backed group has since confirmed Nasrallah has been killed
- A Hezbollah statement describes Nasrallah as a martyr, and says the group would continue its fight against Israel
- Separately, Lebanon’s transport ministry told an Iranian aircraft not to enter Israel’s airspace, while the EU has said airlines should avoid Lebanese and Israeli airspace for the next month
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