Suddenly, a commotion ripples through the massive crowd packed tightly into the stands, with some even climbing onto the light poles of Beirut’s Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium.Something is clearly happening. In the platform set up in the middle of the field, equipped with two giant screens, one of the doors leading to the locker rooms begins to move: the convoy carrying the two flower-covered coffins appears.The hundreds of thousands present hold their breath. Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine are indeed dead, lying there in those long caskets draped in yellow fabric. Read more 'The Sayyed is dead, long live the resistance': Nasrallah's funeral through the eyes of a supporter The choir begins the prayers, and the crowd bursts into tears. Many had not yet believed in the death of their Sayyed. But now, they suddenly realize...
Suddenly, a commotion ripples through the massive crowd packed tightly into the stands, with some even climbing onto the light poles of Beirut’s Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium.Something is clearly happening. In the platform set up in the middle of the field, equipped with two giant screens, one of the doors leading to the locker rooms begins to move: the convoy carrying the two flower-covered coffins appears.The hundreds of thousands present hold their breath. Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine are indeed dead, lying there in those long caskets draped in yellow fabric. Read more 'The Sayyed is dead, long live the resistance': Nasrallah's funeral through the eyes of a supporter The choir begins the prayers, and the crowd bursts into tears. Many had not yet believed in the death of their Sayyed. But now, they suddenly...