Gunmen fired into the air and closed some shops in parts of Beirut as Hezbollah supporters said they were in shock and did not believe their leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was dead. The Shiite group confirmed Nasrallah’s death in a statement issued hours after the Israeli military said it had killed him in an airstrike on Hezbollah’s headquarters in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Friday. Nasrallah’s death is seen as a devastating blow to Hezbollah amid ongoing Israeli attacks. Even after the news was confirmed, some supporters held out hope that he was somehow still alive. “God, I hope it’s not true. It’s a disaster if it’s true,” said Zahraa, a young woman who had been displaced overnight from Hezbollah’s stronghold in Beirut’s southern suburbs. “He guided us. It was everything to us. We were under his wings,” he told the […]
Source: News Beast
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