Hassan Nasrallah

Hassan Nasrallah (Arabic: حَسَنُ نَصْرَالَلَهْ; 28 November 1959 – 27 September 2024) was a Lebanese cleric and the leader of the Shia Islamist political party and paramilitary organization in Lebanon called Hezbollah. He was also a Shia Muslim cleric. He is widely credited in Lebanon and the Arab world for expelling Israeli forces from Lebanon in the year 2006 and for the prisoners exchange deals that saw many Lebanese and Palestinians getting freed. Early life Hassan Nasrallah was born in Bourj Hammoud, east Beirut to a Lebanese Shia Muslim family. He was among ten children in his family. He went to Al Najah school, and then a public school in Sin el-Fil, Beirut. The civil war in 1975 caused his family to move to their old home in Bassouriyeh. There, he finished his secondary education at the public school in Tyre. He then joined the Amal Movement, a militant group that represents the Shi'a Muslims in Lebanon. He used to organize the local religious youth into a study group at the village’s Islamic library. Soon he was made the representative of Amal movement in his village at just the age of 15. Assassination On 27 September 2024, the Israel Defense Forces announced that its air force had struck Hezbollah's main headquarters in Beirut with the goal of assassinating Nasrallah. The following day, it was confirmed that Nasrallah had been killed in the air raid. Legacy The Economist noted that "Mr Nasrallah's death will reshape Lebanon, and the region, in ways that would have been unthinkable a year ago." According to the newspaper, the person that takes his role will have a very difficult task: "It is not just that Israel has wiped out almost its entire military leadership (..). It is also that the group stands humiliated in front of a Lebanese public that had already come to resent Hezbollah [for the way in which they do politics]." References Other websites Hasan Nasrallah from Al Jazeera