Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah killed, Iraq Says Israel Crossed 'all red lines'

Lebanese Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli strike, and Iraqi Prime Minister Soudani condemned Israel's killing of Nasrallah as a "shameful attack" and a "criminal" act.

In a statement on Saturday, Soudani called Nasrallah a "martyr on the path of justice" and said the attack "shows that the Zionist entity has crossed all red lines."

Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran, said in a statement Saturday that Nasrallah was killed along with other members of the group "after a Zionist insurgent attack on the southern suburbs of Beirut."

In central Beirut, an AFP reporter heard a passerby screaming: "Oh my God." Women wept in the street after Hezbollah's announcement.

Israeli warplanes pounded southern Beirut and its suburbs overnight Friday and into the early hours of Saturday, the heaviest assault on the Hezbollah stronghold since the group's last war with Israel in 2006.

Daniel Hagari, an Israeli military spokesman, said in a televised briefing that Nasrallah's death "makes the world a safer place" and that Israel would continue to target other senior members of Hezbollah.

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), an ally of Hezbollah, condemned Israel's killing of Nasrallah. Hamas said in a statement: "We condemn in the strongest terms this barbaric Zionist aggression and targeting of residential buildings... We consider this a cowardly act of terrorism." The statement added that Hamas "expresses its condolences and solidarity to our brothers in Hezbollah and the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon for the martyrdom of Nasrallah."

Iran's Foreign Ministry stressed that despite Nasrallah's killing, his "path will continue." Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasir Kanani mourned Nasrallah's death on social media platform X, saying: "The glorious path of resistance leader Hassan Nasrallah will continue and his holy goals will be realized in the process of liberating Jerusalem."