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The Israeli military has said it has killed Hezbollah’s leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, in a series of strikes on a southern suburb of Beirut. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had targeted Hezbollah’s underground headquarters.

The announcement by the IDF on Saturday morning came after overnight speculation about Nasrallah’s fate, the leader of Hezbollah for three decades, the Guardian reported.

According to sources in Israel, the Israeli security cabinet had previously pulled back from plans to kill Nasrallah, but having established that the Hezbollah leader was due to attend a meeting at the command complex, approved a plan to kill him.

The news was initially broken by the military spokesperson Lt Col Nadav Shoshani in a brief post on X saying: “Hassan Nasrallah is dead.”

In a statement issued shortly afterwards, the IDF said Nasrallah had been killed along with Hezbollah’s southern front commander, Ali Karki, as well as other Hezbollah commanders who were attending the meeting.

“The strike was conducted while Hezbollah’s senior chain of command was operating form the headquarters and advancing terrorist activities against citizens of the state of Israel,” the statement added.