Hezbollah source: Nasrallah was buried “temporarily as a deposit” in a secret location news
A source close to Hezbollah told Agence France-Presse on Friday that the party’s Secretary-General, Hassan Nasrallah, who was assassinated by Israeli raids a week ago, was buried “temporarily as a deposit”, due to the difficulty of his popular funeral as a result of “Israeli threats.”
The source, who declined to be named, explained that “Nasrallah was temporarily buried as a deposit in a secret place, awaiting the availability of appropriate conditions for a mass funeral,” “for fear of Israeli threats to target the mourners and his burial place.”
Agence France-Presse quoted a Lebanese official who declined to be named as saying that Hezbollah “tried, through Lebanese leaders, to obtain guarantees from the American side to organize a mass funeral for Nasrallah. But it did not obtain the guarantees in the wake of the successive Israeli raids on the southern suburbs of Beirut and southern Lebanon.” Hezbollah strongholds.
The agency quoted a cleric as saying that it is permissible for the Shiite sect – when a person dies, to leave a will to bury him in a specific place that cannot be reached due to an obstacle or war – to bury him in a temporary wooden box under the dirt as a deposit, after praying over him, provided that it is moved later. To the place mentioned in the will.
Nasrallah was assassinated last September 27 in massive raids carried out by the Israeli army in the southern suburb of Beirut, which he said targeted the party’s “central headquarters” located under “civilian buildings” in Haret Hreik, and led to the killing of more than 20 Hezbollah leaders.
But the party denied this, and later announced the killing of Nasrallah along with 4 others, including the deputy commander of operations of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Abbas Nilforoushan, and the commander of the party’s operations in southern Lebanon, Ali Karki, in addition to the commander of Nasrallah’s guard.
Hezbollah has not yet set a date for electing a new Secretary-General of the party, nor has it officially revealed any details about his funeral. The Shura Council, the party’s highest organizational body consisting of 7 members, elects the party’s Secretary-General.
The head of Hezbollah’s Political Council, Hashem Safi al-Din, who has a close relationship with Iran, is the most likely candidate to assume the position of Secretary-General of the party, according to experts.
Last night, intense Israeli raids targeted the southern suburb of Beirut, and they were more violent than those that occurred during the assassination of Nasrallah, according to residents and eyewitnesses. The American website “Axios” reported that the target was Safi al-Din.
