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The body of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has recovered following an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon.
It comes just days after the militant group confirmed the death of Nasrallah, 64, in an airstrike in a Beirut suburb.
His body is believed to be intact after it was found at the site of the attack in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Reuters reports citing a medical and a security source.
A statement from Hezbollah said the group’s leader for more than three decades has ‘joined his fellow martyrs.’
The air strike on Friday also killed Abbas Nilforushan, a senior officer in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.
The Israeli military confirmed it carried out a precise air strike on Friday during Hezbollah leaders’ meeting at their headquarters in Dahiyeh.
Nasrallah is credited for bringing Hezbollah closer to Iran, one of the group’s main backers, and he has been linked to attack on Israeli and Jewish targets.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said targeting Nasrallah was ‘an essential condition to achieving the goas we set,’ describing him as ‘the terrorist.’
The killing of Nasrallah, one of the founding members of the Shiite Muslim party and militant group, is feared to spark a further escalation and a response from Iran.
Hezbollah is anti-Israel and it has vowed to ‘continue the holy war against the enemy and in support of Palestine.’
Lebanon has been devastated by a string of air strikes which have claimed civilian lives and displaced thousands of people following the latest escalation of the conflict after booby-trapped walkie-talkies and pagers exploded across Beirut.
Another air strike killed 11 people in the early hours of the morning today, according to Lebanon’s state news agency.
A home was reportedly destroyed in the village of al-Ain, killing all people inside. Six of the bodies were recovered from under the rubble and a search continues for the remaining five.
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