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Hezbollah mourned its Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah on September 28, confirming in an official statement that he was killed in the violante Israeli strike that targeted the headquarters of the group in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, a day earlier.
“In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
{So let those fight in the way of Allah who exchange the life of this world for the Hereafter. And whoever fights in the way of Allah and is killed or victorious – We will give him a great reward.}
God Almighty is trueHis Eminence, the Master of Resistance, the righteous servant, has passed away to be with his Lord and to His pleasure as a great martyr, a heroic, daring, brave, wise, insightful, and faithful leader, joining the caravan of martyrs of the eternal, luminous Karbala in the divine, faith-based path in the footsteps of the prophets and martyred imams.
His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary General of Hezbollah, has joined his great and immortal martyred comrades, whose path he led for nearly thirty years, during which he led them from victory to victory, succeeding the Master of the Martyrs of the Islamic Resistance in 1992 until the liberation of Lebanon in 2000 and to the glorious divine victory in 2006 and all the battles of honor and sacrifice, arriving at the battle of support and heroism in support of Palestine, Gaza, and the oppressed Palestinian people.We offer our condolences to the Master of the Age (may God hasten his reappearance), the Guardian of the Muslims, Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei, may his shadow endure, the great authorities, the mujahideen, the believers, the nation of resistance, our patient and struggling Lebanese people, the entire Islamic nation, all the free and oppressed people in the world, and his honorable and patient family. We congratulate His Eminence the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, may God be pleased with him, on receiving the highest divine medal, the Imam Hussein Medal, peace be upon him, fulfilling his most precious wishes and the highest ranks of faith and pure belief, as a martyr on the path of Jerusalem and Palestine. We offer our condolences and congratulations to his fellow martyrs who joined his pure and holy procession following the treacherous Zionist raid on the southern suburb.
The leadership of Hezbollah pledges to the highest, most sacred and most precious martyr in our journey full of sacrifices and martyrs that it will continue its jihad in confronting the enemy, in support of Gaza and Palestine, and in defense of Lebanon and its steadfast and honorable people.
To the honorable mujahideen and the victorious and triumphant heroes of the Islamic Resistance, you are the trust of the martyred Sayyid, and you are his brothers who were his impregnable shield and the jewel in the crown of heroism and sacrifice. Our leader, His Eminence, is still among us with his thought, spirit, line, and sacred approach, and you are committed to the pledge of loyalty and commitment to resistance and sacrifice until victory.
Saturday 9-28-2024
24 Rabi` al-Awwal 1446 AH” the group’s statement reads.
The strike on Hezbollah headquarters flattened six buildings in the southern Beirut suburbs of Dahieh. Between nine and 300 people were killed, according to various media reports.
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said in an earlier statement that alongside Nasrallah, the commander of Hezbollah’s Southern Front, Ali Karaki, and other senior members of the group were also killed. In addition, Hebrew media reported that the daughter of the Nasrallah lost her life in the strike.
Citing Israeli officials and Iranian media reports, the Axios news site also reported that Iranian Brigadier General Abbas Nilforoushan, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander in Lebanon, was killed alongside Nasrallah.
Video footage released by the IDF showed F-15 fighter jets of the Israeli Air Force taking off to carry out the deadly strike. The warplanes were armed with advanced American-made 5,000-pound bunker buster bombs. Initially, it was falsely reported that the strike was carried out by F-16 fighter jets.
Nasrallah became the leader of Hezbollah after the group’s previous leader, Abbas al-Musawi, was assassinated by Israel in 1992.
For the next 32 years, he led the group through very difficult times while securing several political and military achievements, from the liberation of southern Lebanon in 2000 to the establishment of deterrence against Israel in the war of 2006, the successful intervention in the Syrian war after the 2011 uprising and finally the ongoing battle in support of the Gaza Strip since 2023.
The strike that killed Nasrallah was the latest in a series of Israeli assassinations that took out most of Hezbollah’s senior commanders.
Most of the assassinations took place in the last ten days after the IDF escalated its strikes against Lebanon to a level not seen since the war of 2006. In response, Hezbollah expanded its attacks deep into northern Israel, hitting key military sites.
The assassination of Nasrallah will generate unprecedented tensions in the Middle East and could even lead to an all-out war between Israel and the Iran-led Axis of Resistance.
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