(4 Oct 2024)
IRAQ NASRALLAH CEREMONY
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kirkuk, Iraq – 3 October 2024
1. Members of Popular Mobilization Forces carrying a symbolic coffin covered with picture of late Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in September
2. Various of symbolic funeral, people marching and stepping on Israeli and U.S. flags on street
3. Man on stage saying slogans as clerics stand next to him
4. People chanting, some holding up flags
5. Army officers watching
6. Poster of Nasrallah with text reading (Arabic): "We will surely win"
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammed Hasib Kahya, deputy head of 16th Brigade at the Popular Mobilization Forces:
"Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah will remain immortal in the conscience of all free nations, and we will continue on his path until the last drop of our blood. We the Iraqi people and all Islamic nations promise to stay on this path until the last drop of our blood."
8. Various of members of Popular Mobilization Forces carrying coffin, others marching
9. Man holding poster of Nasrallah while chanting UPSOUND (Arabic:) "No, no to normalization (with Israel)"
10. People marching
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abu Yasser al-Saeedi, attendee:
"Our presence in Kirkuk today along with this big crowd of people from Kirkuk is a message that we send to the entire Muslim world, that Hassan Nasrallah is in the hearts of all believers, in the hearts of all heroes of the resistance and in the hearts of all Arab Muslim nations. This is the message we want to send to the Islamic world, that Hassan Nasrallah remains in our hearts. And we promise him to follow the same path that was taken by the heroes of the resistance."
12. Various of ceremony, people holding images of Nasrallah and carrying symbolic coffin
STORYLINE:
Officials with the Popular Mobilization Forces, an umbrella group of paramilitary forces in Iraq, held a symbolic funeral in Kirkuk on Thursday to honor the leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group, Hassan Nasrallah.
Hezbollah confirmed on Saturday that Nasrallah, its leader and one of its founding members, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in a southern suburb of Beirut.
Around 200 people attended the ceremony in Kirkuk, where members of the paramilitary forces carried a symbolic coffin to honor Nasrallah.
They also carried pictures of the late Hezbollah leader while chanting against Israel and the U.S.
"Nasrallah is in the hearts of all believers, in the hearts of all heroes of the resistance and in the hearts of all Arab Muslim nations," said Abu Yasser al-Saeedi, who attended the symbolic funeral.
The killing of Hezbollah’s powerful longtime leader sent shockwaves throughout Lebanon and the Middle East, where he has been a dominant political and military figure for more than three decades.
Nasrallah has been on Israel’s kill list for decades.
His assassination is by far the biggest and most consequential of Israel’s targeted killings in years, and significantly escalates the war in the Middle East.
Hezbollah is backed by Iran, Israel’s chief regional rival.
AP video shot by Sirwan Tahir
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