Iranian Officials Emergency Meeting Discuss Israeli Attack Kill Hezbollah Leader

JAKARTA - Iran's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee held an emergency meeting to discuss the latest Israeli attacks in the region, with a major focus on the situation in Lebanon.

A committee spokesman, Ebrahim Rezaei, said an emergency meeting focused on investigating Israeli attacks on the Iranian region and the crimes of the Zionist regime on the southern outskirts of Beirut.

"Zionists are witnessing their final days in the occupied territories, and these events will mark the beginning of the end for the condemned and criminal Zionist regime," said Ebrahim, Saturday, September 28, quoted by Middle East Monitor.

The response came after Israeli soldiers announced on Saturday 28 September that they had killed Hezbollah's Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah in an airstrike on Beirut's southern suburbs on Friday 29 September.

Hezbollah confirmed the death of its leader on Saturday, September 28.

Since Monday, September 23, Israeli airstrikes have devastated Lebanon, killing nearly 800 people and injuring more than 2,300, according to data from the Lebanese Ministry of Health.

The Lebanese ministry has also reported that since October 2023, the death toll in Lebanon has reached 1,622, with 98,800 displaced people from the southern and eastern regions of the country.