Sayyed Nasrallah, Hezbollah leader is dead.
Hezbollah has confirmed that its leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in the Israeli attack on their headquarters in Lebanon, on Friday 27 September 2024.
Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV started airing Koran verses after the announcement of Nasrallah’s death.
This confirmation follows the Israeli claim that Nasrallah was killed in a targetted airstrike in Beirut’s southern suburbs the day before.
Hezbollah made a statement saying it would continue its battle against Israel “in support of Gaza and Palestine, and in defence of Lebanon and its steadfast and honourable people“.
Israel however has stated that they are fighting Hezbollah, not Lebanon.
Who are Hezbollah?
Hezbollah was founded in about 1982 as a Shia Islamist military-resistance organization.
Hezbollah’s military experience, gained fighting in Syria’s civil war, and has made the Shiite militant group into a powerful armed forces, especially with its financial and military backing from Iran.
Many countries consider Hezbollah to be a terrorist organisation, based on their car bombings and suicide attacks.
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Hezbollah’s Wars with Israel.
Hezbollah was founded in 1982, during the Lebanese civil war, with substantial support, especially military aid, from Iran from their very beginning.
The Lebanese Civil War was an armed conflict that took place over 15 years between 1975 and 1990, resulting in an estimated 150,000 fatalities and about one million people leaving Lebanon.
This war resulted in the disarmament of all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias, excluding the Iran-backed Hezbollah group.
It also saw the Collapse of the Israel-backed State of Free Lebanon in 1984.
With the dominance of the Hezbollah military in Lebanon since 1990, fighting began between Israel and Hezbollah again when Hezbollah, on 7 October 2000, launched a cross-border raid, killing three Israeli soldiers and taking their bodies.
This localised conflict continued until 12 July 2006, when Lebanon-based Hezbollah militants fired rockets at Israeli border towns as a diversion for an anti-tank missile attack on two armored Humvees patrolling the Israeli side of the border fence. This caused the deaths of three soldiers, with two more being captured and taken into Lebanon.
Israel responded with airstrikes and artillery fire on targets in Lebanon, followed by a ground invasion of Southern Lebanon. Israel also imposed an air-and-naval blockade.
The conflict is believed to have killed between 1,191 and 1,300 Lebanese people and 165 Israelis.
This was the beginning of the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah War, or the Second Lebanon War. A war that resulted in the deaths of around 1,300 people in Lebanon (including Hezbollah military) and 165 Israelis.
Why Hezbollah matters to Iran.
Since their inception 40 years ago, the Hezbollah militant group has been the crown jewel of Iran’s “Axis of Resistance”, a group of Iran-allied Islamist militias spanning Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza and Yemen that gives Iran strategic depth against its adversaries.
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16 February 1985: Doctrine of Hezbollah.
Necessity for the Destruction of Israel.
We see in Israel the vanguard of the United States in our Islamic world. It is the hated enemy that must be fought until the hated ones get what they deserve. This enemy is the greatest danger to our future generations and to the destiny of our lands, particularly as it glorifies the ideas of settlement and expansion, initiated in Palestine, and yearning outward to the extension of the Great Israel, from the Euphrates to the Nile. Our primary assumption in our fight against Israel states that the Zionist entity is aggressive from its inception, and built on lands wrested from their owners, at the expense of the rights of the Muslim people. Therefore our struggle will end only when this entity is obliterated. We recognize no treaty with it, no cease fire, and no peace agreements, whether separate or consolidated. We vigorously condemn all plans for negotiation with Israel, and regard all negotiators as enemies, for the reason that such negotiation is nothing but the recognition of the legitimacy of the Zionist occupation of Palestine.
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/doctrine-hezbollah