RADM. Daniel Hagari

On the Death of Hezbollah's Hassan Nasrallah

First Posted on 28 September 2024

[AUTHENTICITY CERTIFIED: Text version below transcribed directly from audio]

Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the terrorist army Hezbollah, was killed by Israel Defense Forces in a precise strike in Beirut last night while he was in Hezbollah’s Central Headquarters commanding more imminent attacks against the people of Israel.

For decades, Hezbollah, under the command of Hassan Nasrallah, orchestrated countless attacks against innocent people. Hassan Nasrallah had the blood of thousands of men, women, children on his hands: Israeli Jews, Jews across the world, Lebanese, Americans, British, French, Syrians, and other countless victims across the Middle East and beyond.

Hezbollah, under the command of Hassan Nasrallah, joined Hamas in attacking Israel on October 8th, just one day after Hamas‘s massacre on October 7th.

For almost a year, Hezbollah, under the command of Hassan Nasrallah, has been firing thousands of rockets, suicide drones, anti-tank missiles, and ballistic missiles at Israeli towns and cities. Sixty thousand -- sixty thousand Israelis fled their home[s] in northern Israel.

Hezbollah has openly declared that it has a plan to carry out its own October 7th massacre -- its own October 7th massacre on Israel’s northern border, but even [o]n a larger scale. They call this plan “Conquer the Galilee."¹

Hezbollah has been planning to do this in northern Israel what Hamas did in southern Israel on October 7th: invade Israel, infiltrate civilian communities, and massacre innocent civilians. The Israel Defense Forces will not let it happen.

Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of an evil terrorist organization, the senior terrorists eliminated with him, and the Central Headquarters were a legitimate military target under international law.

Nasrallah intentionally built Hezbollah’s Central Headquarters under residential buildings in Dahiya, Beirut because Hezbollah intentionally uses Lebanese civilians as human shields.

While Hezbollah seeks to maximize civilian harm, Israel seeks to minimize it. Our war is not with the Lebanese people; our war is with Hezbollah.

Hezbollah, under the command of Hassan Nasrallah, chose to join the war that Hamas started.

There are consequences for that decision.

Hezbollah is not just a threat to Israel; Hezbollah is not just a threat to the State of Lebanon; Hezbollah is a threat to the world, backed by the regime in Iran.

As of last night, Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, will no longer be able to terrorize the world. For Nasrallah’s many victims over the decades, whether in Israel, Argentina, Bulgaria, Syria, or Lebanon itself, justice has been served.

We warned the world countless times: Hezbollah is dragging the State of Lebanon and the entire region into a wider escalation. Israel does not seek a wider escalation. We seek two things, two simple things: to bring our hostages home from almost a year in Hamas captivity, in all means;² and to make sure that our borders are safe and secure for our citizens.

¹ Conceptually, the idea of an invasion of Galilee by Hezbollah had been brewing for some years before gaining tactical and operational feasibility. See here, here, and here (beg. paragraph 11).

² Or "by any and all means" or "by any means necessary"

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