Germany says Nasrallah killing was Israeli self-defense

Israel’s killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in a powerful airstrike in Beirut constituted a use of its right to defend itself, a German foreign ministry spokesperson said on Monday.

 "Hezbollah is of course a terrorist organization and it was obviously a meeting of the top leadership of Hezbollah, from which one can assume, even from a distance, that they were planning their further operations," the spokesperson said.

"So in this respect, there are also reasons to believe that the right to self-defense was exercised here," he added.

Hezbollah deputy secretary-general Naim Qassem says Israel is targeting civilians in Lebanon. “Every house, everyone on the streets, they are not fighters,” he said.

“Israel is committing massacres,” he added, and “America supports Israel, America is a partner” in the massacres.