# Hassan Nasrallah

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*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.*

- **Role:** Secretary-General of Hezbollah
- **Killed by:** Israeli strike on a complex in southern Lebanon
- **Civilian casualties in the strike:** Approximately 300
- **Strategic outcome:** Decapitation of Hezbollah leadership
- **Kiriakou's characterization:** A war crime

**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](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-kiriakou) characterizes the operation, as he does the parallel scientist-killing strikes in the [Iran 12-Day War](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/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](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/iran-12-day-war)
- [MOSSAD](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/mossad)

## Sources

1. Mossad, Terrifying CIA Technology, Blackwater & The Most Secret CIA Unit (2025-08-31), at 2:59:54. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3FxH39oYsA&t=10794s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-08-31-dalton-fischer-mossad-blackwater/

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