Iran has called on Muslims to stand against the 'rabid dog' of Israel and back Hezbollah after the IDF killed their commander in an air strike.
Confirming Hassan Nasrallah's death today, Hezbollah pledged to keep fighting Israel - saying that the leader had 'joined his fellow martyrs'.
They said: 'The leadership of Hezbollah pledges... to continue its jihad in confronting the enemy, supporting Gaza and Palestine, and defending Lebanon and its steadfast and honorable people.'
Iran's Supreme Leader pledged that 'all regional resistance forces' would support the terrorist group as the country demanded a 'strong' response to the attack.
And as the region appears to be on the brink of war the Israeli military has boasted that the attack is 'not the end of our toolbox' and gloated that they can 'reach' anyone who threatens them.
Revealing Nasrallah's death this morning, a triumphant IDF spokesperson said: 'Hassan Nasrallah will no longer be able to terrorize the world.'
In a brazen taunt to the countries surrounding them, this morning the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) shared a diagram of the Hezbollah chain of command, where each leader had been marked up as 'Eliminated'. Copying a popular 'meme' template, the post on Twitter read: 'We searched up 'dismantled' on the internet, this is the picture that came up.'
It comes as the country activated three battalions of reserve soldiers to join two brigades who are already training in northern Israel, close to the Lebanese border, for a possible ground invasion.
As fear of a spiraling conflict spread across the Middle East experts warned of a ferocious response from Iran, with Dr Abed El Qadir Kanaaneh, a Hezbollah expert from Tel Aviv University warning: 'The gates of hell are opening right now.' Another security specialist added that it could lead to attacks 'across the world'.
And Iran's Supreme Leader, who is the head of state and responsible of the Revolutionary Guards Corps, is said to have been moved to secure location under heightened security as he blasted the country as a 'usurping regime'.
Of pressing concern, Iranian media reported that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' deputy commander Abbas Nilforoushan was also killed during the strikes in Beirut on Friday.
Hamas voiced its support from Gaza in a later statement, saying: 'We extend our sincere condolences, sympathy and solidarity to the brotherly Lebanese people and brothers in Hezbollah and the Islamic resistance in Lebanon.'
'We condemn in the strongest terms this barbaric Zionist aggression and the targeting of residential buildings … in the southern suburb of Beirut, and we consider this a cowardly act of terrorism, a massacre and a heinous crime, which proves once again the bloodiness and brutality of this occupation.'
Iraq declared three days of mourning in light of Nasrallah's death.
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