Tel Aviv, Sep 28 (UNI) Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has been eliminated in the Israeli airstrike on Beirut, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said on Saturday.

"Yesterday (Friday), Israel killed Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Hezbollah terrorist organisation and one of its founders, along with Ali Kar Karaki, a senior commander of Hezbollah's southern front, and other Hezbollah commanders," the statement read.

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