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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem

Impact of Hezbollah assassinations may take months to emerge

A mural in Tel Aviv depicting Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leader assassinated by Israel.
A mural in Tel Aviv depicting Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leader assassinated by Israel on Friday. Photograph: Abir Sultan/EPA

In 1992, Israeli media celebrated an assassination. The man killed then was Abbas al-Musawi, the secretary general of Hezbollah, whose convoy was struck by Israeli helicopters.

Then, as now, Israeli analysts speculated that Musawi’s death might possibly portend the end of Hezbollah, which had been founded 10 years earlier, after Israel’s invasion of Lebanon.

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