"Cowardly Terrorist Act": Hamas, Hezbollah Response To Killing Of Hassan Nasrallah (image @IRNA)

Responding to the news of the assassination of the Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in Israeli airstrike, Hamas, the resistance movement of Gaza, condemned the “barbaric Zionist aggression” in Lebanon. The group expressed condolences and solidarity with Hezbollah, and Lebanese people.

In a statement released, Hamas said it consider Israel’s targeting of residential buildings in Beirut – during which Nasrallah is believed to be killed – as a “cowardly terrorist act, a massacre, and a vile crime, reiterating the bloodiness and brutality” of the Israeli Occupation Force.

The group pledges to renew its “absolute solidarity and stand as one with the brothers in Hezbollah, and the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon”.

Hamas said history has proven that the resistance its faction anywhere always returned “more determined to continue the confrontation with this Zionist enemy until it is defeated and removed” Palestinian land and region.

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In a statement released, Hezbollah said, “His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary General of Hezbollah, has joined his great, immortal martyr comrades whose path he led for nearly thirty years, during which he led them from victory to victory… We offer our condolences and congratulations to his fellow martyrs who joined his pure and holy procession following the treacherous Zionist raid on the southern suburb”.

The statement also added that the leadership of Hezbollah pledges to continue in “confronting the enemy in support of Gaza and Palestine, and in defense of Lebanon and its steadfast and honorable people”.

Iraq declared a three mourning after the news of the assassination of Nasrallah. In a statement released, the country’s Prime Minister Shia al-Sudani said “To God we belong and to Him we shall return”. The statement was released shortly after influential Iraqi Shia Muslim leader Muqtada al-Sadr also announced three days of mourning.

The Israeli military has unleashed wide range of bombing campaign in Lebanon, in which mostly civilians were murdered. The death toll in the country crossed 700 since Tel Aviv started its indiscriminate bombing campaign in Beirut.

The Israeli army said it struck more than 140 Hezbollah targets since Friday evening, including infrastructure that was “embedded underneath residential buildings in the area of Beirut”.