In his final speech on September 19, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah denounced the deadly Israeli attacks that blew up radios and pagers across Lebanon, describing it as a potential "declaration of war". The leader vowed retaliation for the attacks, saying they would "be met with a just punishment". The Israeli military announced Saturday they had killed Nasrallah in an airstrike on the group's central headquarters a day earlier.