{"id":10154,"date":"2024-10-04T15:29:43","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T09:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=10154"},"modified":"2024-10-04T15:29:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T09:44:43","slug":"source-close-to-lebanons-hezbollah-says-slain-leader-temporarily-buried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/source-close-to-lebanons-hezbollah-says-slain-leader-temporarily-buried\/","title":{"rendered":"Source close to Lebanon&#8217;s Hezbollah says slain leader temporarily buried"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A source close to Hezbollah said Friday that the Lebanese militant group&#8217;s slain chief Hassan Nasrallah has been temporarily buried in a secret location for fear Israel would target a large funeral.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hassan Nasrallah has been temporarily buried, until the circumstances allow for a public funeral,&#8221; the source said, after an Israeli strike killed the leader last week.<\/p>\n<p>The source said a public funeral had been impossible to hold &#8220;for fear of Israeli threats they would target mourners and the place of his burial&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Shiite Muslim rites provide for such a temporary burial when circumstances prevent a proper funeral or the deceased cannot be buried where they wished.<\/p>\n<p>A Lebanese official who spoke on condition of anonymity said Hezbollah had, through top Lebanese officials, sought but failed to obtain &#8220;guarantees&#8221; from the United States, a key ally of Israel, that Israel would not target a public funeral.<\/p>\n<p>Amid intensifying Israeli bombardment of Hezbollah, a massive strike on its south Beirut stronghold on September 27 killed Nasrallah alongside an Iranian Revolutionary Guards general.<\/p>\n<p>Israel said it killed around 20 members of the Iran-backed militant group.<\/p>\n<p>Nasrallah still does not have a successor a week after he was killed.<\/p>\n<p>His cousin Hashem Safieddine, a prominent Hezbollah figure touted as a possible successor, was the target of a recent Israeli air strike on south Beirut, US and Israeli media reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A source close to Hezbollah said Friday that the Lebanese militant group&#8217;s slain chief Hassan Nasrallah has been temporarily buried in a secret location for fear Israel would target a large funeral. &#8220;Hassan Nasrallah has been temporarily buried, until the circumstances allow for a public funeral,&#8221; the source said, after an Israeli strike killed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10156,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10154\/revisions\/10156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}