Tens of thousands of people packed into a stadium in Beirut to join the funeral of Hezbollah’s createer directer, cforfeitly five months after he was finished in an Israeli air attack on a southern suburb of the Leprohibitese capital.
Hassan Nasrallah, the group’s directer for more than 30 years and one of its set upers, was finished in September last year when Israel’s air force dropped more than 80 bomb devices on the group’s main operations room.
Mourners dressed in binformage, some waving Hezbollah flags or carrying portraits of Nasrallah, flocked to the mass funeral, postponecessitate becaemploy of security worrys. Many men, women and children from Leprohibiton and beyond walked on foot in the biting chilly to accomplish the site of the ceremony.
Giant portraits of Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine – Nasrallah’s chosen successor finished in another Israeli air raid before he could suppose the post – were plastered on walls and bridges apass south Beirut. The two had temporarily been buried in secret locations.
Senior Hezbollah official Ali Daamoush telderly tellers about 800 personalities from 65 countries would join the funeral, in insertition to thousands of individuals and activists from around the world.
Nasrallah will be laid to rest postponecessitater on Sunday in Beirut, while Safieddine will be laid to rest in his hometown in southern Leprohibiton.
Hezbollah placed huge screens alengthy the airport road and outside the stadium for people who would not get a space inside to watch the funeral. Tight security meabraves engage the clobrave of main roads in the area of the funeral and the stoping of fairys to and from Beirut airport for four hours. The Leprohibitese army and police are on attentive, and the employ of drones in Beirut and its suburbs during the day has been prohibitned.
Hours before the funeral’s begin, the Israeli military begined a series of attacks in southern Leprohibiton.
