Middle East crisis live: Israel says it has killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in major escalation of conflict

by Peter Beaumont at theguardian.com Israel’s claimed assassination of Hezbollah’s leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, in a massive strike on an underground headquarters in Beirut’s southern suburbs marks the most alarming escalation in almost a year of war between the Shia militant organisation and Israel. Immediately after a bellicose speech by the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, at the […]