Thousands of mournings were mourned at a stadium on Sunday to attend the funeral of Hasan Nasrallah, a former leader of Hizbullah, who was killed in an Israeli air strike at a southern suburb of Lebanani capital. After the death of Hizbullah in September, the security reasons delayed for months, dressed by the black, men, women and children of Lebanon.
The ceremony was held in the largest sports area of Lebanon – on the outskirts of the Hizbullah – Hizbullah at the Cemily Chaman Sports City Stadium. Video footage of the Jam-Pack Stadium was widely shared on social media, showing people to waving Hizbullah’s flags or carrying pictures of Nasrallah before their funeral.
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The funeral of Seed Hasan Nasrallah has begun in Lebanon
People from about 90 countries are present in Berut today
The crowd is more than a million people pic.twitter.com/ljmpl5vfxs
– Iran Observer (@Iranobserver0) February 23, 2025
Hasan Nasrallah, who guided the Lebanese movement for more than three decades, was killed when the Israeli Air Force dropped more than 80 bombs in Hizbullah’s main operating room on 27 September 2024. His death was a major setback for the Iran-supported group. The late leader turned into a powerful force in the Middle East.
Thousands gathered to say the last goodbye
Since Saturday, the roads in Beirut have been filled with carnodes by Hizbollah supporters who have allegedly traveled from other power centers of the movement in South Lebanon and Beka Valley to the east of Lebanon.
The huge paintings of the shrubbed-dead Nasrallah and his chosen successor Hashham Safidin-who were killed in another Israeli air strike, have overturned on the walls and bridges of Berut, before he could assume the position. One was also hung on top of a platform on the pitch of the packed Camili Chamun Sports City Stadium, where the funeral is to be performed for the two leaders.
The stadium has a capacity of around 50,000, but Hizbollah organizers have set up thousands of additional seats on the pitch and outside, where the mourning will be able to follow the ceremony on a huge screen. Tight safety measures have also been taken, including closure of major roads in the funeral.
The Lebanese army and police forces were placed on alert and the army has banned the use of drones in Beirut and its suburbs during the day. Flights to Berut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport were scheduled to stop for four hours starting from noon.
Hizbullah has invited Lebanese officials to the ceremony, with the presence of Iranian Speaker Parliament, Mohammad Bagher Galibaf and External Affairs Minister Abbas Argchi.
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Jam-pack in front of Nasrallah funeral pic.twitter.com/k75mxcdlyk
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The funeral is scheduled to begin at 1:00 pm (1100 GMT). A procession would then chase on the site near the highway of the airport where Nasrallah will be buried. Safieddine will be intervened on Monday in its southern hometown of its southern hometown Dir Khanun al-Nahar.
Ali Damoshsh, senior Hizbullah officer, told reporters on Saturday that about 800 personalities from 65 countries will participate in the funeral besides thousands of persons and activists around the world.
“Come from every house, village and city so that we tell the enemy that this resistance will remain and will be ready in the field,” asphalt said while referring to Israel.
People mourn the leader ‘most beloved’
Nasrallah was the leader of Hizbullah for more than 30 years and was a founder. He enjoyed a widespread impact among the Iran -backed groups in the region and was widely honored in the so -called Iran -led axis of resistance including Iraqi, Yamani and Palestinian faction.
Iranian Foreign Minister Argchi, in a speech by Berut, described the dead leaders as “two heroes of resistance” and swear that “the path of resistance would continue”.
One of the 55 -year -old mourning, who came to see him (Nasrallah) one last time and came to see his pilgrimage “AFP said” we feel sad “.
He said, “At least we can do this for Syed who left everything,” he said using a respectable.
Another 36 -year -old participant Khulud Hamih told AFP that she had come from the east to mourn the leader, she said “was the most loved for our souls”.
“Bhavna is indescribable, my heart is beating (so fast),” he said, his eyes were filled with tears.
Despite the cold weather and large crowd, she said that she does not miss the funeral for anything. “Even if we had to crawl to reach here, we will also come,” he said.
Sahahar al-Awas, a mourning who traveled from the Beka Valley of Lebanon for the last rites, told the Associated Press that he still “could not believe what happened.”
He said, “We must have come under the bullets” to participate in Nasrallah’s burial, she said. “This is an indescribable feeling.”
Hizbollah’s call
Hizbullah is calling his supporters to attend a large number of funerals, which seems to be a step to show that the group remains powerful after the major blasts during the 14 -month war with Israel, which has its own Left senior political and military officers. dead.
As part of the US-Brokered ceasefire deal ending the war with Israel on 27 November, Hizbullah is not considered an armed appearance with the border with Israel. Hizbullah’s rivals have called the group to lay their weapons in Lebanon and become a political faction.
Israeli strike
A few hours before the funeral began, the Israeli army launched a series of attacks in the southern Lebanon. The Israeli army said in a statement that it “had a precise intelligence-based strike at a rocket launcher and a weapon military site in the Lebanese region.”
