(5 Jan 2025)
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Beirut, Lebanon – 5 January 2025
1. Various of people carrying pictures of late Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, and Lebanese, Palestinian and Hamas flags, arriving at site where he was killed in Israeli airstrike
2. Various people gathering at site where Nasrallah was killed
3. Various of tributes and photos left at site
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Wafiq Safa, senior Hezbollah security official:
“On the 100th day marking the martyrdom of His Eminence (Hassan Nasrallah) I came here to say that this place, where he was martyred, was frankly the operations room for the Islamic Resistance (Hezbollah). His Eminence (Nasrallah) used to lead the battle and war from this location, and so the first appearance (Safa’s first public appearance since ceasefire) for us would be from (the place) where he was. May he rest in peace.”
5. Various of people gathered
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) ) Wafiq Safa, senior Hezbollah security official:
“The violations have become unbearable but his Excellency, Parliament Speaker, Nabih Berri, had asked to be given a chance to resolve it because (US Envoy Amos) Hochstein called to resolve it, and as a result His Eminence (the) Sheikh (Sheikh Naim Kassem, acting head of Hezbollah) will wait and in light of what happens, then there will be a position."
7. Wide of people gathered
8. Wide of site where Nasrallah was killed
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Raafat Murra, Hamas official:
“We are gathered at this site of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s martyrdom, may he rest in peace. The delegation of the Palestinian people represents all the Palestinians in the camps, and the Palestinian groups represent all Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. This is to send a message of loyalty, appreciation and respect to Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s sacrifices."
10. Various of people gathering at site
11. Nasrallah’s poster amid debris
STORYLINE:
Dozens of people gathered in a southern Beirut suburb on Sunday at the site where Hezbollah’s long-time leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed last September in an Israeli strike.
The event, on the 100th day since the killing, was organised by Hamas in Dahiyeh, south of Beirut.
Speaking at the site, a senior Hezbollah official told reporters that Nasrallah was killed while inside the militant group’s war operations room.
“His Eminence (Hassan Nasrallah) used to lead the battle and war from this location,” top Hezbollah security official, Wafiq Safa, said.
He said Nasrallah died in the war operations room. He did not offer other details.
Lebanese media had reported that Safa was a target of Israeli airstrikes in central Beirut before the ceasefire but appeared unscathed.
The assassination of Nasrallah, who had led Hezbollah for 32 years, turned months of low-level strikes between Israel and the militants into all-out war that battered much of southern and eastern Lebanon for two months, until a US-brokered ceasefire took effect November 27.
During the first phase of the ceasefire, Hezbollah is supposed to move its fighters, weapons and infrastructure away from southern Lebanon north of the Litani River, while Israeli troops that invaded southern Lebanon need to withdraw all within 60 days.
Lebanese army soldiers are to deploy in large numbers and, alongside United Nations peacekeepers, be the sole armed presence in southern Lebanon.
Lebanon and Hezbollah have been critical of ongoing Israeli strikes and overflights across the country and for only withdrawing from two of dozens of Lebanese villages it controls.
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