BEIRUT: Hezbollah’s deputy chief will make an address at 0900 GMT on Monday, the Lebanese group’s Al-Manar TV announced, the first such speech since an Israeli attack killed the group leader Hassan Nasrallah.
Al-Manar television announced, “Watch the address of his renown Hezbollah deputy secretary-general Sheikh Naim Qassem at 12:00 pm Beirut time,”. However, details of Hassan Nasrallah’s funeral have not yet been formally announced.
Earlier, on Saturday, Hezbollah confirmed that its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an Israeli overnight strike on Beirut’s suburbs. “Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary General of Hezbollah, has joined his great, immortal martyr comrades whom he led for around 30 years,” According to Hezbollah’s statement.
Earlier, the Israeli military claimed that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an airstrike on Beirut.
“Hassan Nasrallah is dead,” Israel’s army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani claimed on social media. Military spokesman Captain David Avraham also confirmed that Hassan Nasrallah had been “killed” after strikes Friday on Beirut. Hassan Nasrallah was unreachable after Israel’s attacks on Beirut’s southern suburbs on Friday evening, Reuters cited a source close to Hezbollah.
