the, the business, the w news live from berlin has villa confirms the depth of its meter and is really air strikes. hassan estella was targeted in a bonding in bay wood on friday. he is credited with turning the lebanese militia into a major fighting force during this more than 30 years at the helm of the group. israel continues to carry out error strikes on what it describes as test bullet targets. across lab, a non smoke was seen rising over b route after several attacks on the south of the city is really military says it has hedge, more than a $140.00 targets and 11 on it since friday night. the

melissa chan, thanks for joining us. we continue to lead with breaking news this. our hezbollah has confirmed the death of its leader hassan, astrology, and it is really air strike in be root. the. this is the moment israel's military struck, has below us underground headquarters in the city. late friday, the attack flattened several apartment blocks and the densely populated area in the south of bay route. rescuers desperately searched for survivors is really officials reported. we estimated that 300 people may have been killed. hezbollah later confirmed the death of the man who headed the run back to militia group for more than 3 decades, and vowed to continue fighting israel. the dream l y is

a journalist in b root. he told us more about the aftermath of the hezbollah leaders. death was said at the time of the late silence that his bullet finally confirmed to the states that it see the house. and most of. busy these dead the same statements, they were seeing his spirit, this ideas really remain with us. and they were the mountains of good spite. this is to continue him, his promise to be of assistance and victory. so n a to know there is no more staple for his folder, there is also a date set for his altogether quite his situation on the streets of abel. how are lebanese responding to no sir ellis,

chilling understanding? of course, there must be a diversity of views out there, which i mean, i was on the street when the, his, this was announced by his folder and that his supports us. i mean i sold him a very good motions. they were starting to cry. some of them were sitting down in the streets and really, really seems of davis station. i'm on this when you look at the political scene and of course it no more on statements on this well, but this is paula allies, except that some of the christian alice of that he's one of us talking about the great loss. and also it says, this is moses and to ask you to be live on in to stand by in this district. our eh, they can't take it probably be the same. says just be the rather vague statement

saying it danger is threatening us. then of course you have also goals, who are you satisfied school? really thinking that this boys too much power is full is too strong. is a state of the states and that they are not saying this publicly. they're like really care for what they're saying. and just like an hour and a half ago, there was a group who is going to support a c, a passing by which the motorcycle is shooting into the air. kind of saying like, you know, we are your careful don't you think of all think about it in the direction those who might be happy with this got it. and from where here standing and they will, what do you think we might expect from a ron next as well, you know, of course it is the big sponsor of the who split up the reading president to say

said that this whole thing with just strengths and the resistance, so defined sounds from the at, on also from the and finally how many, uh, the great, the, the himself, who was saying that say in this killing of the, his ball and either it would be of interest in his past in fighting israel would be continued by other militants eh, the seller, he said was nothing either his passed the screen of thoughts into this room on continue so defined sounds from from, from it on, no indication if there would be any military answer from from there. well this is kristin, possible journalist cream, l g o r e in bay route. thank you so much for joining us with

my colleague, michael. oh, cool. talk to major during spielman, a spokesman or for the is really military until of these. he asked who else was killed in last night? the strike and be root. you have um, some of the key was the head of the southern command of his beloved essentially the comp on that they were in was the nerve centre office, viola. this was the very place that they were planning attacks against israel, where they were working on the game and, and attacks on the coming days, including a ground, a salt, into israel that was prevented the week before, the concept of rockets and missiles. this essentially was the terror headquarters, the not only his director, the tax to the resultant and 60000 was released leaving their homes and israel living under a garage of 9000 missiles. but this is the same place in which americans were attacked in the marine barracks and which $240.00 americans died. numerous british and european nationals. so if we,

if we think of hitler and the lair that hitler was in, this was the layer of this role. and the parallels i think are quite accurate. major, this strike involved dropping massive bombs on a civilian area. what is your estimate of the collateral damage caused by the strikes as well? i can tell you that every strike that is all sticking in this war has been carefully evaluated, trying to minimize that link casualties. there was a strike that took place 2 hours after this was an example in which we took out major warehouses that were about to fire rock is towards is really special chemical factories. and we were able to notify the civil leading people in advance. however, unfortunately, while i don't have the exact numbers to give you this time, but i can tell you, is that since his bullet, similar to from us, it uses civilians to cover up their tunnels as well, use the civilians to cover up the tear activities the for all it wasn't at home, it was an a tier headquarters which was underneath the civilian buildings. and therefore he is in contravention of international law. and sadly, he makes it

a legitimate military target, which is all had no choice, but the striking or disabled people of israel, israel as no, it actually was that's roll up. i can tell you that this rolla, this rolla, well, i think that any nation in the world, if i ask you a question, if, if germany or you know, was being bombed and the people in berlin were under attack and 9000 rockets, it rained down on top of them they had you knew where the person was that was doing this. would you wait a year, michael? before you struck them? i can, i can surely say to you that i'm glad i'm done in position to have to make that call. but i do have to ask you to questions some 300 people as you surely know died those or your government's own estimates, is that a proportionate military response to the threat from has bola against israel? i think every one of these people that has died is awful. the civilians that have died 11 on and, and gaza. and these are real people with real families,

real mothers and fathers and children. and i get it every is really gets it, which is why and october, 6th, or 7th before his beloved jack, no one initial even thought, if you would tell me a year later, we would be a war of 11 on where it was completely out of our minds we were living within our own borders. we haven't been in live in on, in 20 years, 24 years. and unfortunately, as well, a rig. so traffic on us that is very difficult to defy proportionality. but these are the commanders of a terror regime that have struck such terror across israel in the world. that according to our estimates that are for international law, reacted for international law and all the civilian casualties. and they are tragic, are on the head surface ball on one of israel's declared war games is to allow residents of nowhere the news real displaced by has bowler, rocket attacks, to return home. how close are you to achieving that objective? i think it's very much in the corner of the ron and then as well as port you know,

as i mentioned, if has bullet decided at any point in time to stop shooting rockets, it is roll and withdraw beyond the lead time. the river, which is the international law, which was the united nations resolution. they agreed to that it would stop right away and our people could go back home. the problem is, and you can imagine is really many women and children. i was up north yesterday, walk you through your actual know which is a goes down. only 3000 people who couldn't leave are still there to 24000 and rockets fell almost on top of me and, and no one would raise their children and that type of situation. so i think is what we'll do. everything it has to do to target those munitions target, those leaders however, it's in their court and we ask that we're not looking for a wider conflict during escalation. please adhere to international law. please stop targeting these really people and this will end within a minute. you say that you're not looking for an escalation, but again, this is a dynamic that many observers around the world are paid to continue to watch the

back and forth. we have very little time now, but i do want to ask you what kind of response are you expecting from hezbollah to the assassination of his liter? and i'm not really sure. i mean, that's something that needs to be addressed as well. what i can tell you, my goal is that we are ready for anything that they send in our direction. we are looking and targeting all those rockets and you know, missiles which we've seen and it's the world is watching. and it's saying that you have a living room with a missile in it, and you see a has bola oper to pull back a blind and shoot at its central israel. so we're ready. we're looking for those watchers to take them out. but as i mentioned, this escalation is, name is bullock, while we are ready to respond and will protect our people with whatever means necessary, we are calling in the international community to see this truly is a battle of good against evil, the evil, the bullet international community is to stand on sign feet and tell the church international law leave is role and allow the residents where is that to go back and then we can all move about our lives and build

a positive future. my colleagues, michael accrued talking to major during spielman, a spokesman for the is really military. israel has continued caring out air strikes on what it describes as has blood targets across level non. throughout the day, smoke was seen rising over bay route after several attacks on the south of the city is really military said, it had hit more than a $140.00 targets since friday night with new attacks on southern and eastern lab and on as well as the law has responded by fine rockets into northern israel as well as is really occupied the golan heights dw correspondent tenea kramer is in jerusalem. she told us more about the reaction, is realty enough to all as death and possible retaliation by his beloved to well, these are, there's the main topics here that are being discussed and the media. and it's the end of the week. and now they're more and more political reactions also coming in. of course, on the one hand, you have the operation itself. know,

the more details now emerging and of how it was possible that is, well, basically, info trader, head the intelligence to gets to a house on those rela himself. and the receipt over the past weeks is ro targeting a senior commanders in the succession of a steps against his spa. and basically, you know, it is a discussion, you know how the intelligence was being done, how the strike was carried out. and that's why there was an arch enemy of israel that you know, for over 30 years he was leading a, the organization. and we had also from a defense mistake on a saying that was responsible for thousands, for the killing of thousands of is varies, and foreign nationals of course is also what's not so much talked about maybe is the human told at this massive strike on this underground facility and then when it happened, you don't know yet how many people were killed from those who are living in this

densely populated area, the in da here, when the strike happened on friday night. now the other thing here is of course, what comes next and the different scenarios of being discussed. you seen already on the over the course of the day over 90 rockets being fired towards the north. there was just about 2 hours ago, a surface to surface missile launched by the who sees in yemen. so it's not yet this massive therapist of many military onto this would expect as retardation. so we have to wait and see what's happening there. but also as we speak is really continues its air strikes on the been on southern they've been on, but also in be rude. and they just said in a statement that has killed another senior commander in southern they are 2 different scenarios here. what could happen next? and of course, it's a watership moment, so to speak, in a very volatile situation. you know, must be very hard to gauge what happens next,

but how likely is it that will now see and is really ground invasion unleavened on well, there's a lot of speculation about that and it's not clear whether a decision has been a taken yet. certainly be seen preparations here in the past couple of weeks and a days more of a service units have been a cold up also a built up around in the north in a border area. basically, it may also depend on his pull out or as to say is on of will do next to is some sense of support at the moment for, you know, going full force against has prolong, through a strikes. it might change a bit if there would be ground invasion because this is, of course and much riskier for soldiers going in there. but there's also a lot of pressure on the people i talked to in the north at the summer.