Hezbollah to commemorate fallen leader Nasrallah amid ongoing conflict

Hezbollah will hold a ceremony commemorating its Secretary General, Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed during the ongoing conflict.

The ceremony will take place in Beirut and its southern suburbs, with Hezbollah supporters gathering at the site where the organization's headquarters once stood, Caliber.Az reports citing Israeli media.

Since the beginning of the war, 176 senior Hezbollah leaders and commanders have been killed, including the organization’s Secretary General, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah.

Of the 176 individuals killed, the majority—54—were local commanders operating in southern Lebanon. In addition, 41 of the slain commanders were Radwan commanders, while 31 were eliminated during the ground operations.

Hassan Nasrallah, the longtime leader of Hezbollah, was killed in a massive Israeli air attack on Beirut on September 27.

The Israeli army had claimed the assassination earlier in the day.

Nasrallah, who reached the peak of his popularity after the war with Israel in 2006, was seen as a hero by many, not just in Lebanon but beyond. Standing up to Israel is what defined him and his Iranian-backed group, Hezbollah, for years. But that changed when Hezbollah sent fighters to Syria to crush the uprising threatening President Bashar al-Assad’s rule.

Nasrallah was no longer seen as a leader of a resistance movement but the leader of a Shia party fighting for Iranian interests, and was criticised by many Arab countries.

By Vafa Guliyeva