Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike on September 27, 2023, in an underground war operations room in Beirut. The attack, which also claimed five other lives, led to a full-scale war between Israel and Hezbollah. While a ceasefire was brokered by the US in late November, tensions persist, with Hezbollah threatening further strikes if Israeli forces fail to withdraw from southern Lebanon by the end of January.
