Year after killing Nasrallah, IDF says terror chief didn’t realize he was Israel’s next target

Marking a year since the assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, the IDF says it is revealing intelligence that suggests the terror chief was unaware he was Israel’s next target, as he remained in his bunker to plan new attacks.

In the days leading up to Nasrallah’s death on September 27, 2024, and following the so-called pager attack and killing of top commanders in the terror group, the Military Intelligence Directorate says the Hezbollah leader “remained in place without realizing that he was the next target for elimination.”

“In the days before his elimination, Nasrallah tried to rebuild the organization’s capabilities and plan counterattacks, but each of them was quickly thwarted,” the IDF says.

While Nasrallah was trying to recover from Israel’s offensive against Hezbollah, “precise intelligence” that had been gathered over the years “enabled an exact hold on the location of his secret bunker, whose construction was made possible using Iranian technology and strict compartmentalization, even within the closest circles of the terror organization,” the IDF says.

During the strike on September 27, 2024, Israeli Air Force fighter jets dropped 83 bunker-busting bombs on Nasrallah’s underground command center in Beirut, killing the Hezbollah leader alongside other top commanders in the terror group.