Hassan Nasrallah acquired a short lived burial as hostilities with Israel didn’t permit for a funeral to happen.
The funeral of longtime Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah shall be held on February 23, the group has mentioned, months after he was killed in an Israeli air attack in Lebanon’s capital.
Nasrallah, who had served as Hezbollah’s secretary normal for greater than 30 years, was killed on September 27 as Israel ramped up its air assaults on Hezbollah targets in Beirut’s southern suburbs.
His successor Naim Qassem mentioned in a televised handle on Sunday that Nasrallah was killed “at a time when circumstances have been tough”, forcing the group to conduct a short lived burial for him in line with non secular custom.
Qassem mentioned the group had now determined to carry “a grand funeral procession with a big public presence” for each Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine, one other high Hezbollah official killed in an Israeli strike practically every week after Nasrallah.
He additionally confirmed for the primary time that Safieddine had been elected as Nasrallah’s successor however was killed earlier than the announcement was made. He mentioned Safieddine would even be buried with the title of secretary normal.
Nasrallah shall be buried on the outskirts of Beirut “in a plot of land we selected between the outdated and new airport roads”, whereas Safieddine shall be buried in his hometown of Deir Qanoun in southern Lebanon, he mentioned.
Hezbollah introduced on October 29 that Qassem, the group’s deputy chief, had been elected as its head, after the killings of lots of the group’s high navy commanders threw the group into disarray.
A ceasefire agreed in late November ended hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel and set a 60-day deadline for Israeli troops to withdraw from southern Lebanon, Hezbollah to take away its fighters and arms from the world and Lebanese troops to deploy there.
That deadline was prolonged final month till February 18. Israel has been accused of violating the phrases of the ceasefire by refusing to depart Lebanon and persevering with to hold out occasional air assaults in some elements of the nation. Israel itself accuses Hezbollah of violating the phrases of the ceasefire.
Hezbollah confronted one in all its greatest challenges after the Iranian-backed group opened up a entrance towards Israel to assist relieve strain on its ally Hamas in Gaza in October 2023. The group suffered losses after months of cross-border combating and Israeli assaults that focused the group’s main figures.
