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Profile / Killed by Israeli attacks in Beirut, who was the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah?
2024-09-28 14:21:05 / BOTA
Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the militant Shiite Islamist movement Hezbollah in Lebanon, was one of the most popular and influential figures in the Middle East.
Nasrallah has not been seen in public for years due to fears he could be killed by Israel.
The Israeli military said it had killed Nasrallah in an attack in Beirut, but the news was only recently confirmed by Hezbollah.
A man with close personal ties to Iran, he played a key role in turning Hezbollah into the political and military force it is today – and remains admired by the group's supporters.
Under Nasrallah's leadership, Hezbollah has helped train fighters from the Palestinian armed group Hamas, as well as other groups in Iraq and Yemen, and has received missiles and weapons from Iran to use against Israel.
Born in 1960, Hassan Nasrallah grew up in the eastern Beirut neighborhood of Bourj Hammoud, where his father Abdul Karim ran a small vegetable shop. He was the eldest of nine children.
He joined the Amal movement, then a Shia militant group, after Lebanon entered civil war in 1975. After a short time in Iraq's holy city of Najaf to attend a Shia seminary, he rejoined Amal in Lebanon before that he and others split from the group in 1982, shortly after Israel invaded Lebanon in response to attacks by Palestinian militants, the BBC reports.
The new group, Amal Islamic, received significant military and organizational support from Iran's Revolutionary Guards based in the Bekaa Valley and emerged as the most prominent and effective of the Shiite militant groups that would later form Hezbollah.
In 1985, Hezbollah officially announced its founding by publishing an "open letter" that identified the US and the Soviet Union as the main enemies of Islam and called for the "extinction" of Israel, which it said was occupying Muslim lands. .
Nasrallah rose through the ranks of Hezbollah as the organization grew. He said that after serving as a fighter, he became a director in Baalbek, then in the entire Bekaa region, thus reaching Beirut.
He became Hezbollah's leader in 1992 at the age of 32, after his predecessor Abbas al-Musawi was killed in an Israeli helicopter attack.
One of his first actions was to take revenge for Musaëi's murder. He ordered rocket attacks in northern Israel that killed a girl, an Israeli security officer at the Israeli Embassy in Turkey was killed by a car bomb, and a suicide bomber blew up the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, killing 29. persons.
Nasrallah also led a low-intensity war with Israeli forces that ended with their withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000, although he suffered a personal loss when his eldest son Hadi was killed in a clash with Israeli troops.
After the withdrawal, Nasrallah announced that Hezbollah had achieved the first Arab victory against Israel. He also vowed that Hezbollah will not disarm, saying he believes "all Lebanese territory should be returned," including the Shebaa Farms area.
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