The funeral of Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli air strike, has been removed from the wreckage. It is alleged that the attack, which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is said to have ordered on Wednesday, September 25, had been planned for months. Reports behind the planning of the attack indicate that Israel had been monitoring the position where the bombardment had been taking place for some time. So how did Israel kill Nasrallah? How was the plan to kill Nasrallah made? In an attack targeting Hezbollah’s main headquarters in Dahiya on Friday, September 27, at least 80 bunker-busting bombs were used. Two sources, including a health worker who spoke to Reuters, said the cause of death was trauma due to the intensity of the explosion. An Israeli source who spoke to Reuters days before the attack in which Nasrallah was killed had claimed that Israel had been focusing its intelligence efforts on Hezbollah for 20 years and could hit Nasrallah whenever it wanted, including the HQ. According to Reuters, the approval for the attack was given by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, September 25. Israeli officials, as reported by the American newspaper New York Times, had known Nasrallah’s whereabouts for months. Concerned about Nasrallah relocating and eluding them, they decided to launch the attack immediately. Nasrallah had been avoiding public appearances since 2006 and meeting very few people. He was on high alert, his movements restricted, and his circle very small. A security official from within the organization who spoke to Reuters revealed concerns over a potential Israeli informant within Hezbollah. Israel eliminated seven of the organization’s eight key commanders, including Nasrallah. Sources within the group reported that the Hezbollah leader had been acting more cautiously since the call device explosions on September 17, fearing that Israel would try to kill him. Israel’s military spokesman, Colonel Nadav Shoshani, said during a briefing to journalists that the army had “real-time” information on where and when Nasrallah and other leaders were gathering. Shoshani did not disclose intelligence sources but claimed that the leaders had come together to plan an attack on Israel. The French newspaper Le Parisien claimed that the informant who alerted the Israelis that Nasrallah was headed to the bunker was Iranian. Planning reports behind the attack indicate that Israel had been observing the position where the bombing had been taking place for some time. The commander of the F-15I jets that carried out the attack was identified as “Colonel M” in the Israeli media. It was mentioned that the air crew that carried out the attack had prepared for “several days,” but were only informed of the target a few hours prior. Four residential buildings were hit, three completely destroyed, and two others damaged in the attack. Brigadier General Amichai Levine, commander of the Hatzerim airbase, provided further details on the planning. Levine stated that the first challenge in “destruction operations” was intelligence. The second challenge was ensuring that the target did not escape “while the planes were on the way or the ammunition was heading towards the target.” The question of why Nasrallah deemed it necessary to personally meet with other Hezbollah members becomes important here. Allegedly, the only way to escalate the crisis in the region if Israel had lost trust in all electronic devices used by the organization, including call devices and radios, would be a face-to-face meeting. In any case, it is now clear that Israel has been implementing a plan in the past two weeks to target the military leadership of Hezbollah, causing great harm to Lebanese civilians in doing so. An estimated one million people have been displaced, and hundreds have been killed in the attacks.