Since Tuesday evening, rumors have been circulating on social media claiming that Abdel Karim Nasrallah, father of Hezbollah's former secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah, assassinated by the Israeli army on Sept. 27 in Beirut's southern suburbs, has been killed in Syria.

Some outlets, including Saudi network al-Hadath, have circulated reports suggesting that Abdel Karim Nasrallah was killed in Qousseir, a Syrian town near the Lebanese border.

However, Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), dismissed the claims. “This is not true,” he told L’Orient-Le Jour, calling it “part of the media war.”

Recently, similar unverified reports surfaced about Salim Ayash, a man convicted in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, alleging he was also killed in the same area, located in the province of Homs. This report followed an Israeli airstrike on a vehicle in the near the border village of Hawouch al-Sayyid Ali, near Qousseir. “We have no precise information on Salim Ayash,” Abdel Rahman added.