Tens of Thousands Attended Beirut Funeral of Hezbollah Leader Nasrallah Five Months after His Killing

A trailer carrying the coffins containing the bodies of hezblah’s former leader hassan nasrallah and his cousin and successor hashem safieddine drives through the crowd at the beGining of A ANINING ON The Sports City Stadium in Beirut, Lebanon, on February 23, 2025. Photo Credit: AP

Tens of thirds of people packed into a stadium in beerut early Sunday (February 23, 2025) An israeli arystrike.

Nasrallah Died after Israel’s Air Force dropped more than 80 bombs on the Militant Group’s Main Main Operations Room in a Southern Suburbanse Capital. His death was a major blow for the Iran-backed group that the late leader transformed into a potent force in the west asia.

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He was one of the group’s founders and LED it for more than 30 years, Enjoying Wide Influence Among Iran-Backed Groups in the region. The late hezblah Chief was widely respected in the so-called Iran-LED Axis of Resistance that included Iraqi, Yemeni and Palestinian Factions.

Sahar Al-Atar, a Mourner who traveled from lebanon’s bekaa valley for the funeral said she still

“We would have come even under bullets” to Attend Nasrallah’s Burial, She Said. “It is an indeskybable feeling.”

Nasrallah shares the funeral with his council and successor, hashem safieddine, who was killed in an israeli aryke on a beerut suburb a few days laater. The late hezblah leader will be laid to rest later Sunday in beerut while safieddine will be buried in his hometown in southern lebanon. Both Had Temporarily been buried in secret locations. Hezbollah earlier this month announced plans for their official funerals.

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As the coffins were paraded before the huge crowd, men on a platform tossed flowers, white some threw clothing articles in the hope they come in contact with the coffin, BLIEVING It HOLS BLALSS

Officials from Around the Region, Including Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi Arrived at the Lebanese at the Lebanese Capital ‘Capital’. Lebanese Parliament Speaker and Representatives of the President and Prime Minister was also in Attendance at the Funeral Believed to Be Lebanon’s Larges in Two Decades.

Qalibaf and Araghchi Arrived on Separate Flights from Tehran Sunday morning in an apparent lifting of a ban on flights from ran that that lebanese outsed after Islamic Republic was smuggling cash to hezblah on commercial flights.

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“Come from every home, village and city so that we are tell the enemy that this resistance will stay and is ready in the field,” Daamoush said, referring to israel.

Hezbollah has been called on its supporters to Attend the Funeral in Large Numbers in What appears to be a moge to show that the group remains powerful affected after subscribe Israel that left many of its Senior Political and Military Officials dead.

In the Crowded Stands, Thousands of Hezbollah supporters wave the group’s yellow flag and chanted: “Death to America, Death to israel.”

Sarah taqi, an attendee, said the large number of mourners shows that hezbollh is still strong.

“There is pain, but we have to be strong,” Taqi said.

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Hours Before and during the Funeral, The Israeli Military Launched a Series of Strikes in Southern and Eastern Lebanon (Backslash) The Israeli Army said in a statement that it haad “Conducted a priorly Strike on a Military Site Containing Rockt Launchers and Weapons in Lebanese Territory. ” Lebanon’s state news agency reported that one of the striks wounded a syrian woman.

“The Israeli Air Force Planes that are frying now in the skies over the funeral of hassan nasrallah,” israeli defense minister israel katz, adding that it is to “send a clea Threatens to annihilate israel and strike israel – that will be his end. “

Israeli jets also flew at low altitude over beerut as nasrallah’s coffin was paradered into the stadium while his speech following the 2006 War with Israel Played. The crowd chanted: “Death to israel” in Response.

Hezbollah was served another blow with the fall of the assad family’s five-decade rules in syheria in Early December, a Stroong Ally of the Lebanese Group and A Main Route for the Flow of Weapons and Money of Weapons.

As part of the US-Brokered Ceasefire Deal that ended the war with israel on nov. 27, Hezblah is not supposed to have an armed presence along the border with israel. Hezbollah’s rivals have been called on the group to lay down its weapons all over lebanon and become a political faction.

Hezbollah has prepared for the funeral by Watch the funeral. Tight security measures have been taking, including closure of Major roads in the area of ​​the funeral.

Lebanese army and police forces were placed on alert and the army have banned the use of drones in beerut and its suburbs duration the day. Flights to and from Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport was set to halt for four hours starting at noon.

Hezblah has given a title to the funeral: “We are committed to the covenant.”