New Lebanon is beginning to look like Old Lebanon
New Lebanon is beginning to look like Old Lebanon
AFP
Sunday, July 16, 2006 14:50 IST
JERUSALEM: The head of Lebanon's Hizbollah Shiite Muslim movement, the target of Israel's massive onslaught against the country, has been injured in an air strike, Israeli television reported on Sunday.
"Hassan Nasrallah was wounded during an air raid by Israeli forces on Beirut," Israeli private television reported without giving details.
There was no immediate reaction from Hizbollah.
Israel has carried out relentless air strikes against Hizbollah targets in Lebanon over four days, including Nasrallah's headquarters in the Shiite-dominated southern suburbs of Beirut which was destroyed on Saturday.
There has so far been no word on whether the 45-year-old Nasrallah -- who defiantly declared "open war" on Israel on Friday -- was inside the nine-storey building at the time of the strikes.
Israeli government ministers have made no bones about their desire to see the Hezbollah leader eliminated.
"He can benefit from no immunity. We will wipe him out at the first opportunity. That's why he had better pray to Allah," Zeev Boim, minister for immigration and an ally of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, said on Saturday.