Current Nasrallah news below. I'll be avoiding fluff news like retaliatory missile attacks and other happenings and just focus on the dead or alive status and related rumours or statements.
What Happened? Israel blows up some building in Beirut in an attack supposedly targeting Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah's very elusive big bad leader.
(this is somehow the best available footage lmao)
Latest:
IDF officially announced Hassan Nasrallah is kill Times of Israel
No body yet. No Hezbollah statement yet. I still consider this unconfirmed but it's extremely unlikely for the IDF to announce this without knowing for sure especially considering how long it's taken to do so.
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New York Times reports that Iranian officials expressed concern that the absence of a statement from Hezbollah on Mr. Nasrallah's status portended bad news and that "The cellphones of Iranian officials across the country beeped with text messages and phone calls asking variations of the same question: Any news from Sayyed? It was a reference to Mr. Nasrallah by his nickname and religious title." NYT
Iranian foreign minister says at UN meeting "the Israeli regime used several 5,000-pound bunker busters that had been gifted to them by the United States to hit residential areas in Beirut" Timers of Israel
(Curious that they are specifically saying bunker busters when this information would be impossible for them to confirm. It's as if the target was in a particularly protected area and that area was penetrated successfully?)
IDF says they are still investigating the results of the "very accurate" strike. Guardian
Hezbollah Health ministry says at least 6 are confirmed dead. No names given. Guardian
It's been hours since the strike and Hezbollah has made no official statement. Only info we have is from unnamed sources at low levels or outside but close to Hezbollah. Top leadership appears to be radio silent and unreachable according to sources close to Hezbollah. Times of Israel
Guardian reports sources close to Hezbollah say Nasrallah is "alive and well" Guardian
Iranian leaders are seething with Pezeshkian saying the attack is an "open and fragrant war crime that once again revealed the nature of state terrorism of this regime." Times of Israel
Ali Larijani, an adviser to Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei, tells Iranian state television that "any leader of the resistance will be replaced". -
When asked what leaders he was speaking about Larijani looked panicked and changed the subjectTimes of Israel
Random unnamed Israeli official says "It's very hard to imagine him coming out alive from a strike like that" Times of Israel
Amos Yadlin former head of IDF intelligence says that his sources, which he does not name, are adamant that Nasrallah "is no longer with us." Times of Israel
Sources in Hezbollah claim Nasrallah is "fine".
Israel blows up some building in Beirut in an attack supposedly targeting Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah's leader.
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Watching
Hasan Piker's stream and he is seething 
SO hard
he got upset
at a chat message that pointed out how many people in syria/lebanon hate hezbollah 
and are celebrating, and he dismissed lebanese people who are happy 
that hezbollah 
was demolished by saying something 
along the lines 
of "the lebanese christians think 
it's the filthy barbarian 
shias who force 
israel 
into doing this so it's ok" then said something 
along the lines 
of how lebanese christians still think 
that theyre a "french country" and not a muslim 
one, implying that the reason they hate hezbollah 
is because theyre cucks for colonialism or something 
lol
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That was true to some extent for some of them back in like the 1960s. But I don't think a lot of Greek Orthodox ever felt that way. And even the very culturally French ones didn't want to actually be a colony. I mean ffs the original purpose of the Phalangists was to join together with the Muslims and drive the French out.
A much better argument he could make is that a lot of Christians actually support Hezbollah for various reasons. How many and how much they support them I don't know, it's certainly a lot less than 20 years ago, but these people definitely do exist. Of course that would never occur to a leftoid who wants to see every interaction with people being about "settler colonialism". And somehow even though the Christians were actually there first and literally got colonized, they're still the bad guys.
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