New footage said to capture airstrike that killed Hezbollah chief Nasrallah in bunker
CCTV clip shows eruption of debris after single strike, reportedly in vicinity of terror group’s underground headquarters, where IAF bunker-busting bombs killed him in September
Previously unpublished footage circulating on Arabic media Thursday purported to show the Israeli airstrike on Beirut that killed longtime Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in the terror group’s underground headquarters last year.
The video, whose September 27, late-evening timestamp matches the time Nasrallah was killed, was reportedly captured on a surveillance camera of a building near the Hezbollah bunker where he died. The location could not be verified.
The soundless, minute-long video shows an unidentified man exiting a building and preparing to mount his motorcycle when a single strike tears up the street and the man sprints back inside for shelter.
The earth visibly shakes as multiple blazes ignite on the street, and the cloud of smoke and dust slowly dissipates. One car appears to have had its trunk ripped open.
Israel confirmed on September 28 that Nasrallah and other top commanders of the terror group were killed in a massive Israeli airstrike on their underground headquarters. Nasrallah was targeted by dozens of bunker-busting bombs dropped by Israeli Air Force fighter jets while he was at Hezbollah’s main headquarters in the southern suburbs of Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold known as the Dahiyeh, the IDF said at the time.
Hezbollah has not commented on the video, and Al-Mayadeen, Al-Nahar and Al-Akhbar — major news outlets affiliated with the terror group — do not appear to have reported on it. However, the video was carried by Quds News Network, which is affiliated with fellow Iran-backed group Hamas.
Israel’s assassination of Nasrallah came at the height of the intense two-week bombing campaign that preceded its invasion of Lebanon, following over 11 months of persistent rocket fire by Hezbollah, which forced the displacement of some 60,000 residents of the north.
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In an interview broadcast on Channel 12 Thursday night, Yoav Gallant, the defense minister at the time, said he had ordered the IDF to double, from 40 to 80 tons, the ordnance used on Nasrallah, to achieve near-certainty that the strike would work.
Nasrallah’s successor Naim Qassem announced Sunday that the terror group would hold a “grand funeral” for its slain chief in Beirut on February 23, five days after the IDF is set to withdraw from Lebanon under the its ceasefire agreement with the terror group.
The November 27 agreement originally gave Israel 60 days, until January 26, to withdraw.
The deadline was pushed back to February 18 amid Israel’s accusations that Hezbollah had failed to withdraw northward as required. On Thursday night, Israel said it had struck Hezbollah weapons caches that violated the ceasefire.
Unprovoked, the terror group began attacking northern Israel on a near-daily basis on October 8, 2023 — a day after thousands of Hamas-led terrorists stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages, sparking the war in Gaza.
