Nasrallah, martyr for
Lebanon and all humanity

Tehran (Qodsna)- Hezbollah continuing it’s supporting from Palestinians in Gaza. Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who had served as Hezbollah's secretary general for more than 30 years, was martyred on September 27. Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah buried in Lebanon on February 23. 

Speaking to Qods News Agency, a Canadian writer, senior journalist and political expert Eric Walberg said that Hassan Nasrallah was a Lebanese cleric and politician who served as the third secretary-general of Hezbollah, a Shia Islamist political party and militia, from 1992 until his assassination in 2024.

Born into a Shia family in the suburbs of Beirut in 1960, Nasrallah studied with the Iraqi Shi'ite scholar Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr, who founded the Dawa movement in Najaf, Iraq, during the early 1960s. Al-Sadr told him, "I scent in you the aroma of leadership; you are one of the Ansar of the Mahdi..." Nasrallah was expelled from Iraq, along with dozens of other Lebanese students in 1978. Al-Sadr was imprisoned, tortured, and brutally murdered by Sadam Hussein, he added.

“Under Nasrallah's leadership, Hezbollah acquired longer range rockets which allowed them to strike at northern Israel. After Israel suffered heavy casualties during its 18-year occupation of southern Lebanon, it withdrew its forces in 2000 in humiliation. Nasrallah was a hero and became a household name, people drawn to his warm personality, eloquence and military acumen”.

During the Syrian civil war, Hezbollah fought on the side of the Syrian government against Daesh and promoted the Axis of Resistance against Israel, Walberg noted.

In September 1997, Nasrallah's public image changed dramatically with his speech about the news of his eldest son's killing by Israeli forces, along with his visits to other mourning families. Nasrallah's reaction became a media event that "served to bring Lebanese nationals together as a collective" and cast Nasrallah "as an extraordinarily selfless leader and an organic leader with deep roots in popular culture."

At Nasrallah's funeral, Ayatollah Khameini called him a "great fighter" and a "pioneer" of the resistance against Israel, he added.

Pointing to the Hezbollah's role in supporting Palestine, Walberq said: Nasrallah believed that Islam holds the solution to the problems of any society, once saying, "Islam is not a simple religion including only prayers and praises, rather it is a divine message that was designed for humanity, and it can answer any question man might ask concerning his general and personal life. Islam is a religion designed for a society that can revolt and build a community." It was his deep faith that reflects the deep faith of the Palestinian and that gives both the resilience and courage to face daily torture and murder by Israel, already for more than a century.

“Nasrallah played a major role in a complex prisoner exchange deal between Israel and Hezbollah in 2004, resulting in hundreds of Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners being freed and many human remains, including that of his son, being returned to Lebanon”, Canadian writer added.  

The Arab League designated Hezbollah a terrorist organization in 2016, but as of 2024 no longer views it as one. As of 2015, Russia rejected claims that Hezbollah is a terrorist organization, and considered Hezbollah a legitimate sociopolitical organization. As of 2012, China remains neutral, and maintains contacts with Hezbollah.

He also went on to say that: The respect and love that people from all walks of life showed to Nasrallah derives from Hezbollah's unwavering support for the Palestinians, even as Arab Sunni regimes have failed in that, hiding behind US shirt strings and secretly and openly conferring with the Zionist entity for fear of their own collapse.