Israel-Lebanon latest: Seventh Hezbollah leader killed in strikes as Nasrallah’s ‘body recovered in Beirut’

Israel has killed a seventh key Hezbollah chief as its bombardment continues in Lebanon , after the Lebanese militant group’s 32-year leader Hassan Nasrallah was assassinated in a strike on Beirut .

The militant group confirmed the death of Nabil Kaouk, a senior figure who led its forces in southern Lebanon during Israel’s 18-year occupation. Israel said earlier Kaouk had been killed, and also said it had struck key weapons-manufacturing sites.

As sources said the body of Nasrallah had been recovered intact from the wreckage, further Israeli strikes on Sunday killed at least six people in the south of Lebanon, according to local media reports, and 11 in the northeast.

A total of 1,030 people, including 156 women and 87 children, have been killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon in less than two weeks, the country’s health minister said.

Iran ’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei said Nasrallah’s death “will not go unavenged” as he remembered the Hezbollah leader as the “flag-bearer of resistance” in the region.

The UK government has asked Britons in Lebanon to “leave now” amid concerns over the escalating situation .