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.

The attacks targeted Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, according to two people familiar with the matter who requested anonymity.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the ongoing conflict in the Middle East during his address to the United Nations General Assembly. He called Hezbollah "the quintessential terror organization in the world today,