The Lebanese group Hezbollah confirmed this Saturday the death of its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, who Israel claims to have killed on Friday in an intense bombardment against the alleged headquarters of the armed movement in the southern suburbs of Beirut. The leader’s death was criticized by the governments of Iran and Iraq, as well as by the Palestinian group Hamas.
“His Eminence Sayyed Hassan 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 formation announced. He also provided a biography and offered his condolences, describing that Nasrallah died along with other members of the group “in a treacherous Zionist bombing on the southern outskirts of Beirut.”
“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,” the note adds. , which 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.
“Barbarous aggression”
The attack and the confirmation of Nasrallah’s death generated reactions in different parts of the Middle East. Iran’s Foreign Ministry stated that Nasrallah’s “path will continue and his sacred goal will be realized with the liberation of Jerusalem, God willing.” Iranian Vice President Mohamad Javad Zarif, meanwhile, expressed his condolences for the death of Nasrallah, calling him a “symbol of the fight against oppression.”
The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas expressed its sympathy for the Lebanese people at this time, condemning Israel’s “barbaric aggression” in Lebanon and its attacks on residential buildings in the last week. “We are confident and certain that this crime, and all the crimes and murders of the (Israeli) occupation will only increase the resistance in Lebanon and Palestine,” Hamas added.
For his part, the Prime Minister of Iraq, Mohamed Shia al Sudani, condemned the death of the head of Hezbollah, calling it a “crime.” Friday’s bombing of a Hezbollah stronghold in southern Beirut was a “shameful attack” and “a crime that shows that the Zionist entity crossed all red lines,” Al Sudani said in a statement, calling Nasrallah of “martyr on the path of the just.”
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