Germany: Israel’s killing of Nasrallah was act of self-defense

By Reuters 30 September 2024, 1:02 pm

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A man points to a television set displaying an image of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah with a black stripe for mourning during a broadcast from the private Lebanese station NBN in Beirut on September 28, 2024. (JOSEPH EID / AFP)

Israel’s killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in a powerful airstrike in Beirut constituted a use of its right to defend itself, a German foreign ministry spokesperson says.

“Hezbollah is of course a terrorist organization and it was obviously a meeting of the top leadership of Hezbollah, from which one can assume, even from a distance, that they were planning their further operations,” the spokesperson says.

“So in this respect, there are also reasons to believe that the right to self-defense was exercised here,” he adds.

Asked about the civilian deaths in the incident, the spokesperson said, “Every civilian victim is one civilian victim too many.”