Israel targeted Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah with a massive airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburbs Friday, people briefed on the attack said, flattening part of a neighborhood in an attempt to kill the cleric who has led the group for three decades and built it into a fearsome foe.

Bellicose Israeli leader tells UN ‘we are winning’ the battle against Hezbollah ahead of the airstrike – which ‘targeted’ the group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah

"Israel has every right to remove this threat and return our citizens to their home safely. And that's exactly what we're doing … we'll continue degrading Hezbollah until all our objectives are met," Netanyahu said.