A commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard died in the Israeli bombing in Beirut – Diario La Página – 2024-09-28 22:29:34

The deputy commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, Abbas Nilforoushan, was killed in Israeli strikes in Beirut on Friday, the Iranian regime’s official news agency, IRNA, confirmed. In that operation, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah died.

Nilforoushan oversaw the Revolutionary Guard Operations Command, which is directly involved in various military and security operations, including the suppression of protests inside Iran and military clashes abroad, especially in Syria.

The Israeli Army announced this Saturday that the head of the Hezbollah terrorist group, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in the Israeli bombing of the movement’s headquarters this Friday in the southern suburbs of Beirut. “Hassan Nasrallah is dead,” the military spokesman for the international press, Nadav Shoshani, announced today after a night of speculation after the Shiite leader showed no signs of life.

In a more detailed military statement, the Army confirmed the death yesterday of Nasrallah along with other Hezbollah commanders, including Ali Karki, commander of the Shiite group’s Southern Front, who were in the organization’s underground headquarters, in the southern suburbs in Beirut known as Dahye, when it was bombed.

“The attack was carried out while Hezbollah’s senior chain of command was operating from headquarters and promoting terrorist activities against citizens of the State of Israel,” the text says.

Friday’s bombing reduced six buildings to rubble. “Israeli bombing destroyed six buildings,” said a knowledgeable source. Israeli officials indicated that, beneath those buildings, the terrorist group hid weapons and had its operations center.

“The IDF continues to attack terrorist infrastructure facilities belonging to the terrorist organization Hezbollah. The IDF has attacked more than 140 Hezbollah terrorist targets, including rocket launchers targeting Israeli civilians, buildings storing weapons, strategic weaponry, weapons production facilities and other terrorist infrastructure facilities, some of them embedded beneath residential buildings. in the Beirut area. “The IDF continues to operate to degrade and dismantle Hezbollah’s terrorist infrastructure and capabilities,” the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement.

The attack came shortly after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered his speech at the United Nations General Assembly. “Israel must defeat Hezbollah. That group turned towns in northern Israel into ghost towns. I asked you how much you would tolerate it if it happened to you. I have come here to tell you that we will no longer tolerate it. “We will not rest until our citizens can return to their homes,” he said.

“Hezbollah places missiles in schools and hospitals, endangering its own population. “We are not at war against the people of Lebanon, we are at war against Hezbollah,” he clarified; while noting: “This week, the IDF destroyed huge percentages of Hezbollah rockets built with support from Iran. We eliminated senior leaders and will continue to degrade Hezbollah until our objectives are achieved. “We are determined to remove the curse of terrorism.”

Finally, he stated: “In this battle between good and evil there must be no misunderstandings. We defend ourselves but also all of you,” he told the delegations of the countries of the world. And he concluded with a strong criticism: “In this (UN) facility, good is painted as if it were evil and evil as if it were good.”