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- Hezbollah confirmed the killing of its leader Hassan Nasrallah in a massive Israeli air attack on a densely populated neighbourhood of Beirut that reduced several residential buildings to rubble.
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel “settled the score” with the assassination of Nasrallah as his air force’s bombing campaign goes on.
- Hezbollah says it will continue to confront Israel in support of Gaza and in defence of Lebanon.
- President Joe Biden calls the Israeli strike that killed Nasrallah a “measure of justice”.
- Tens of thousands of Lebanese continue to flee their homes during Israel’s repeated air strikes.
- At least 41,586 people have been killed and 96,210 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. In Israel, the number killed in the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 is at least 1,139, while more than 200 people were taken captive.