Israel's killing of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in a powerful air strike in Beirut constituted a use of its right to defend itself, a German foreign ministry spokesperson said on Monday.
"Hezbollah is of course a terrorist organization and it was obviously a meeting of the top leadership of Hezbollah, from which one can assume, even from a distance, that they were planning their further operations," the spokesperson said.
"So in this respect, there are also reasons to believe that the right to self-defense was exercised here," he added.
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Asked about the civilian deaths in the incident, the spokesperson said "every civilian victim is one civilian victim too many".
ReplyDeleteHezbollah deputy secretary-general Naim Qassem says Israel is targeting civilians in Lebanon. “Every house, everyone on the streets, they are not fighters,” he said.
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