HIZBOLLAH CHIEF POISONED BY ISRAELI

The Hizbollah leader during a televised speech in May this year


That is the claim of Iraqi website Almalaf Yon reporting "high ranking diplomatic sources" in Beirut as blaming Israel for the reported attack on Hassan Nasrallah.
The Shi'ite militant leader was in a critical condition until Iranian doctors were hastily scrambled from Tehran to save his life, claims the report.
Nasrallah lives the life of a fugitive because of the fear of Israeli assassination attempts, hiding out in secret locations in the Hizbollah neighbourhood of Dahiya in Beirut.
He rarely appears in public and only for short periods of time.
His predecessor Abbas al Musawi was killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon in 1992.
In 1997, Khaled Meshal, leader of the Palestinian militant Islamist group Hamas, survived an assassination attempt by Israeli agents in the Jordanian capital Amman.
They attacked him with a nerve agent in the street outside his office.
Israel was forced to hand over the antidote by the Jordanian government when Meshal's attackers were later caught fleeing the scene of the attack.
This latest web-based rumour about Nasrallah follows another about the head of Israel's intelligence agency Mossad.
Websites have claimed wrongly that Meir Dagan had been assassinated, also in Jordan.
For their part, Hizbollah officials are denying Nasrallah has himself been the victim of a poisoning attack.
Nasrallah's second in command Imad Mughniyeh was assassinated in February in a car bomb in Damascus blamed by Hizbollah on Israel, though it denies any involvement.
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