Hamas condemned the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah after the Lebanon-based group confirmed his death in an Israeli strike on south Beirut a day earlier, AFP reports.

“We condemn in the strongest terms this barbaric Zionist aggression and targeting of residential buildings … and we consider it a cowardly terrorist act,” the group said in a statement, offering “condolences, and solidarity with the brothers in Hezbollah and the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon on the martyrdom of … Nasrallah”.