Hezbollah confirmed the death of its top leader

• Israel claims that Hasan Nasrallah died during a bombardment against the formation’s headquarters in Beirut

The Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah confirmed this Saturday the death of its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, whom 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 30 years, leading them from victory to victory,” the group announced in a statement, without mentioning the circumstances of the death.

A column of smoke rises from a building after Israeli attacks in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, against Hezbollah offices | Photo: EFE/ Wael Hamzeh

Israel claims it killed Nasrallah on Friday afternoon in a bombing raid on the group’s headquarters, reportedly located under residential buildings in Beirut’s southern suburbs 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.

More than a thousand people have died in Lebanon since Israel intensified its attacks on the strongholds of the Shiite group Hezbollah at the beginning of last week, which have also caused more than 6,000 injuries in about ten days, the Lebanese government announced this Saturday.

The biographical note of Hasan Nasrallah

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 support front for Palestine, Gaza and Palestine.

Smoke rises from a damaged building following an Israeli attack in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon | Photo: EFE/EPA/WAEL HAMZEH

“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,” He condemned the training in his note.

With information from EFE

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