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On 28 September 2024, Nasrallah's death was announced by the IDF. [7] [8] Hezbollah confirmed it later that day, [88] [89] ending the uncertainty over his condition. [90] On 29 September 2024, Nasrallah's body was recovered with no obvious wounds; according to Reuters, two sources suggested he had died from blunt force trauma sustained during ...
Hassan Nasrallah (Arabic: حسن نصر الله, romanized: Ḥasan Naṣr-Allāh, pronounced [ˈħasan nasˤraˈɫːaːh]; 31 August 1960 – 27 September 2024) was a Lebanese cleric and politician who served as the third secretary-general of Hezbollah, a Shia Islamist political party and militia, from 1992 until his assassination in 2024.
Nasrallah was born into an aristocratic family, that had held a high status in Karbala.His father, Muhammad (Hammoud) Nasrallah (d. October 27, 1901), was the head of the traders of Karbala, in the late Ottoman era, and his mother, Amina Thabit (d. 1919), was the granddaughter of Muhammad-Ali Thabit (d. 1817), the 10th saden of the Al-Abbas Shrine, as well as the great-granddaughter of ...
Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Hezbollah, speaks during a ceremony in Beirut on 24 July 1994, marking the first anniversary of the weeklong Israeli blitz on south Lebanon (AP)
Nasrallah had led the Iran-backed group since 1992. Israel said on Saturday that Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah had been killed in a targeted strike on the group's central headquarters in Beirut.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, shown in a rare public appearance in 2013, had for decades played a cat-and-mouse game with Israel. He was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon, the group ...
Nasrallah led Hezbollah when its guerrillas finally drove Israeli forces from southern Lebanon in 2000, ending an 18-year occupation. Hezbollah and Israel fought to a standstill in a 2006 war.
The other two were Hassan Nasrallah and Naim Qassem. [13] He was regarded as second only to Nasrallah. [7] In 2006, Safieddine was reportedly promoted by Iran as a possible successor to Hassan Nasrallah for the post of Secretary-General of Hezbollah. [8] [14] Safieddine was one of six clerics who were members of the Shura Council of Hezbollah. [15]