Hezbollah confirms the death of its top leader, Hasan Nasrallah

Hasán Nasrallah would have died during a bombardment against the training headquarters / Photo: Courtesy

The Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah confirmed this Saturday the death of its leader, Hasan Nasrallah, who Israel claims to have killed the day before in an intense bombardment against the alleged headquarters of the armed movement in the southern suburbs of Beirut.

“His Eminence Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah, Secretary General of Hezbollah, joined his great and immortal martyrs, whose journey he led for almost thirty years, leading them from victory to victory,” the group announced in a statement, without mentioning the circumstances of the death.

Israel claims it killed him on Friday afternoon in a bombing raid on the formation’s headquarters, reportedly located under residential buildings in the southern suburbs of Beirut known as Dahye.

For its part, Hezbollah has limited itself to announcing Nasrallah’s death in a biographical and condolence statement, without referring to the attack that devastated several residential properties in Dahye and left at least six dead and dozens injured, according to Lebanese authorities. .

The text recalls how the Shiite cleric took the reins of the movement in 1992 after his predecessor, Abbas al-Musawi, was killed in an Israeli helicopter attack in southern Lebanon.

Likewise, it highlights that Nasrallah led its ranks during the end of the Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon in 2000, the war they waged against the Jewish State in 2006 and, since last October, the front “in support of Palestine, Gaza and the oppressed Palestinian people.

“The leadership of Hezbollah promises the highest, holiest and most precious martyr of our career (…) that he will continue his efforts to confront the enemy in support of Gaza and Palestine, and in defense of Lebanon and its honorable people “, stated the formation in its note.

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