A day after Hezbollah confirmed their chief’s death Hassan Nasrallah in Israeli airstrikes, his body was recovered on Sunday from the site of an Israeli air attack on Beirut’s southern suburbs and intact, a medical source and a security source confirmed to Reuters.
Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was killed on Saturday in Israeli airstrikes on Beirut as its defence forces intensified the attacks on Lebanon.
The two sources said that Nasrallah’s body had no direct wounds and that it appeared the cause of death was blunt trauma from the force of the blast, reported Reuters.
Following Nasrallah’s death, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel had “settled the account” with a “mass murderer”.
“We settled the score with the one responsible for the murder of countless Israelis and many citizens of other countries, including hundreds of Americans and dozens of French,”
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He then issued the directive to neutralise Nasrallah as Hezbollah would have regenerated if he was allowed to live.
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(With inputs from agencies)
