{"id":9809,"date":"2024-09-28T22:48:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T17:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=9809"},"modified":"2024-09-28T22:48:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-28T17:03:12","slug":"hezbollah-confirms-leader-nasrallahs-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/hezbollah-confirms-leader-nasrallahs-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Hezbollah confirms leader Nasrallah&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Lebanon&#8217;s Iran-backed Hezbollah group on Saturday confirmed its leader Hassan Nasrallah had been killed, after Israel said it had &#8220;eliminated&#8221; him in an air strike a day earlier.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary General of Hezbollah, has joined his great, immortal martyr comrades whom he led for about 30 years,&#8221; Hezbollah said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The statement confirmed he was killed with other group members &#8220;following the treacherous Zionist strike on the southern suburbs&#8221; of Beirut.<\/p>\n<p>In the Lebanese capital Beirut, AFP journalists heard a passerby screaming, &#8220;Oh my God&#8221;, while women wept in the streets right after Hezbollah announced the news.<\/p>\n<p>Gunfire could also be heard in Beirut, a gesture to mourn the fallen leader, a charismatic religious figure who is idolised by supporters.<\/p>\n<p>Am AFP correspondent saw a woman wearing a black veil on the street who yelled: &#8220;Don&#8217;t believe them, they&#8217;re lying, Sayyed is well&#8221; &#8212; a reference to Nasrallah.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli jets pounded Beirut&#8217;s south and its outskirts throughout the night into Saturday in the most intense attacks on the Hezbollah stronghold since the group and Israel last went to war in 2006.<br \/>\nNasrallah had rarely been seen in public since 2006.<\/p>\n<p>He was elected secretary general of Hezbollah in 1992, aged 32, after an Israeli helicopter gunship killed his predecessor Abbas al-Musawi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lebanon&#8217;s Iran-backed Hezbollah group on Saturday confirmed its leader Hassan Nasrallah had been killed, after Israel said it had &#8220;eliminated&#8221; him in an air strike a day earlier. &#8220;Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary General of Hezbollah, has joined his great, immortal martyr comrades whom he led for about 30 years,&#8221; Hezbollah said in a statement. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9809","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\/9809"}],"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=9809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9811,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9809\/revisions\/9811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}