Hassan Nasrallah was the long-serving Secretary-General of Hezbollah, killed in an Israeli strike on a building complex in southern Lebanon. The strike achieved its strategic objective — the decapitation of Hezbollah’s leadership — but at the cost of approximately 300 additional deaths from the same operation. John Kiriakou characterizes the operation, as he does the parallel scientist-killing strikes in the Iran 12-Day War, as a war crime under the laws of armed conflict: “They killed 300 people in southern Lebanon when they went after Hassan Nasrallah, the former head of Hezbollah, just blew up the entire complex. It decapitated Hezbollah. It was also a war crime.”[1]
See also
- Hezbollah
- Iran 12-Day War
- MOSSAD