Hezbollah confirms its leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike

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00:00This is the moment Israeli fighter jets bombed Beirut, deafening explosions as huge plumes

00:08of smoke engulfed the skies above.

00:12Israel's military immediately claimed responsibility, saying it had targeted Hezbollah's leader

00:17Hassan Nasrallah amid unconfirmed reports the group's figurehead and leader may have

00:22been at the site.

00:25A potentially catastrophic blow to the U.S.-designated terrorist organization, which has already

00:30seen a number of its military commanders targeted in Israeli assassinations over the past week.

00:37As first responders picked their way through mounds of smoking rubble in its southern Beirut

00:41stronghold, entire buildings in this once-quiet residential street have been pulverized.

00:47But at one point, first responders recovered a little girl, her tiny, dust-covered body

00:53held tight as she was rushed to a nearby ambulance, where she appeared conscious with

00:57only a few cuts.

01:00Barely an hour before the strikes, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received

01:05a mix of boos and applause as he entered the U.N. General Assembly Hall, where several

01:13delegates stood up and walked out before he gave his address.

01:17And we'll continue degrading Hezbollah until all our objectives are met.

01:24Israel has begun massing troops along its northern front and appears to have rejected

01:29a U.S.-backed 21-day ceasefire deal with Hezbollah to temporarily end the fighting, as the death

01:35toll from Israeli airstrikes across Lebanon continue to rise.

01:40And tonight, the White House has said that President Biden has told the Pentagon to,

01:44assess and adjust U.S. forces as needed across the Middle East.

01:49He's also telling his team to make sure that American embassies here in the region are

01:53taking protective measures.

01:55In Fiat's time, CBS News, Beirut.