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The body of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Beirut, has been recovered, a source told AFP on Sunday.
The airstrike which occured on Friday also killed Ali Karake, the group’s top commander in southern Lebanon, Hezbollah said on Sunday.
It has not named others who died alongside Nasrallah and Karake.
Medical and security sources revealed that Nasrallah’s body was found intact at the site of an Israeli air attack on Beirut’s southern suburbs.
Israel’s military said on Sunday that “more than 20 other terrorists of varying ranks” were also killed in the attack.
Meanwhile, the Israeli military, on Sunday, disclosed it had also killed Nabil Kaouk amid an exchange of strikes between the two sides.
Kaouk had been a member of Hezbollah since the 1980s, previously serving as deputy director general of the southern region.
“His body was recovered on Saturday and was placed in a shroud on Sunday after being washed,” the source said, requesting anonymity.
"The funeral ceremony and his burial have not yet been arranged,” the source added.
Before his death on Friday when Israeli jets attacked Hezbollah’s heartland in the south of the Lebanese capital, Nasrallah was considered the most powerful man in the country.
For more than three decades, he headed the Iran-backed movement that was Israel’s sworn enemy.
