The fate of Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah is unknown following the Israeli Defense Forces’ “targeted attack” against the central headquarters of Hezbollah in Beirut, Lebanon.
Fox News has learned the target of the attack was Nasrallah, but Hezbollah has since claimed that he is “fine and well” following the strike.
“His Eminence the Secretary-General is fine and well and was not in the targeted location,” Hezbollah Media Relations Officer Hajj Muhammad Afif said on Iranian television.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has not provided an official status update on Nasrallah’s whereabouts.
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Elijah J. Magnier, a Brussels-based veteran and a senior political risk analyst, said that the group’s normal practice “is that they either want him to be in a safe place, and they are moving him, or he is dead, and they want to wait until they find his body.”