Lebanon’s Hezbollah confirms leader Hassan Nasrallah killed
(FILE) Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah delivers a speech via a screen during a rally outside Beirut, Lebanon, 13 May 2024 (reissued 28 September 2024). EFE/EPA/WAEL HAMZEH
September 28, 2024 Hour: 9:44 am
Hezbollah has released a statement announcing the martyrdom of its Secretary-General, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
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The Islamic Resistance began its statement with the verse: Let those fight in the way of Allah, who sell the life of this world for the Hereafter; and whoever fights in the way of Allah, and then is slain, or he subdues [the enemy], soon We shall give him a great reward. [Surah al-Nisa’, verse 74]
“His eminence the Sayyed, the leader of the Resistance, the pious servant of God, has passed on to God as a great leader, a brave martyr, joining the martyrs of Karbala…on the path of prophets,” the statement read.
The group said in a statement it would continue its battle against Israel “in support of Gaza and Palestine, and in defense of Lebanon and its steadfast and honorable people.”
Israel said earlier on Saturday it had killed Nasrallah in an airstrike in Beirut’s southern suburbs a day earlier.
Friday’s airstrike on Dahiyeh shook Beirut. A security source in Lebanon said the attack – a quick succession of massively powerful blasts – had left a crater at least 20 meters deep.
The attack, followed on Saturday by further airstrikes on Dahiyeh and other parts of Lebanon, have escalated the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah and Palestine resistance.
