Militant leader killed in September when Israeli air force dropped more than 80 bombs on Hizbullah’s Beirut hub
A billboard with a picture of late Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah on the Beirut airport highway, Lebanon . Photograph: Bilal Hussein/APIt was the biggest and most consequential of Israel ’s targeted killings in years.-backed Shia group’s founders and Hizbullah ’s leader for more than 30 years, was a huge blow to the group that he had transformed into a potent force in the Middle East.
A billboard in Beirut with pictures of prominent figures including late Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah . Photograph: Bilal Hussein/AP Nasrallah, idolised by his supporters and with large followings among the Shias and the Islamic world, also held the title of sayyid, an honorific meant to signify the Shia cleric’s lineage dating back to the Prophet Muhammad, the founder of Islam.
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