Netanyahu says killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Israeli airstrike 'will not be enough'

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday commended the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and said his death would not be enough to end the proliferating conflict in the Middle East. “We have some great achievements, but we haven’t completed the task at hand yet,” Netanyahu said, according to a translation by NBC News. “The devastating blows leveled at Hezbollah by the IDF will not be enough.” Hezbollah confirmed that Nasrallah was killed on Friday in an Israeli airstrike in the Lebanese capital of Beirut. “There is no place in Iran, nor in the Middle East, where the long arm of Israel cannot reach,” Netanyahu said. A statement from Hezbollah also on Saturday said Nasrallah “has joined his great immortal martyr comrades.” The confirmation came just a few hours after the Israeli army announced the killing of Nasrallah, after carrying out a large-scale attack on Lebanon the day before. Israel’s Defense Forces (IDF) said Nasrallah, who led the Iran-backed militant group for more than three decades, was killed on Friday as fighter jets conducted what it described as a “targeted strike” on Hezbollah’s headquarters in Beirut. Among other Hezbollah commanders, the IDF said Ali Karki, the commander of Hezbollah’s southern front, was also killed in the strike.