In Lebanon and abroad, people prepare to attend slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s funeral
People are planning to sleep at the site where the funeral will take place, along Beirut's Airport Road, in the days leading up to what promises to be one of Lebanon's largest funerals.
A poster of former Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, hung at the site of his assassination by Israel on Sept. 27, 2024; image taken on Dec. 4, 2024. (Credit: Nicholas Frakes/L'Orient Today)
A young boy placed a Lebanese flag at the opening of a massive pit where a building once stood as his father watched on with pride. Above them both, Hassan Nasrallah looked down at them with his characteristic smile beaming across his face.However, it was only a large portrait of the Hezbollah leader, which hung on a building next to the site where 80 Israeli bunker-buster bombs had killed him on Sept. 27 as he sat in his underground command center, managing the party’s affairs and operations in the war with Israel. Read more Hassan Nasrallah's assassination from the Middle East's perspective Since his death, hundreds of people have flocked to the site to pay their respects to a man who was a mainstay of the community since the early 1990s, or perhaps just out of pure curiosity.Since his assassination, the leader of the Shiite...
A young boy placed a Lebanese flag at the opening of a massive pit where a building once stood as his father watched on with pride. Above them both, Hassan Nasrallah looked down at them with his characteristic smile beaming across his face.However, it was only a large portrait of the Hezbollah leader, which hung on a building next to the site where 80 Israeli bunker-buster bombs had killed him on Sept. 27 as he sat in his underground command center, managing the party’s affairs and operations in the war with Israel. Read more Hassan Nasrallah's assassination from the Middle East's perspective Since his death, hundreds of people have flocked to the site to pay their respects to a man who was a mainstay of the community since the early 1990s, or perhaps just out of pure curiosity.Since his assassination, the leader of the Shiite...
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