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]
Hassan Nasrallah
Long-serving Secretary-General of Hezbollah, killed in an Israeli strike on a complex in southern Lebanon; the strike, which killed approximately 300 people in addition to Nasrallah, decapitated Hezbollah's leadership and is characterized by John Kiriakou as a war crime under international law.
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- ↑ Dalton Fischer Podcast, 2025-08-31 — 2:59:54 on YouTube · Transcript
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