(24 Feb 2025)
IRAQ NASRALLAH CEREMONY
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Baghdad, Iraq – 23 February 2024
1. Various of symbolic funeral for Hezbollah’s former leader, Hassan Nasrallah, nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut
2. Various of mourners holding posters of Nasrallah and Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq’s most powerful religious authority
3. Various of people attending funeral, chanting UPSOUND (Arabic): "No to America, no to Israel" and "God is the greatest"
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Muhanad Hussein, deputy head of the media department at the Popular Mobilization Forces:
"The magnificent funeral which was attended by the Iraqi people with all its sects and from all walks of life, who came to the holy city of Kadhimiya – sends a message to the world that the Iraqi people always support oppressed peoples, always stand with resisting peoples. Today, as the Iraqi people stood with the Palestinian people, it stands with the Lebanese people. And the Iraqi people assert the message of the nation’s martyr, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah that we will continue on his path and approach. This is the path of free people."
5. Various of people stepping on U.S. and Israeli flags and image of U.S. President Donald Trump
6. Vehicle driving over flags and image of Trump
7. Men in fatigues stepping on image and flag
8. Various of crowd
STORYLINE:
Iraqis in Baghdad took part in a symbolic funeral on Sunday to honor Hezbollah’s former leader, Hassan Nasrallah, nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Lebanese capital.
The symbolic ceremony took place on the same day that Nasrallah was buried in Lebanon.
The event in Baghdad’s Kadhimiya neighborhood was organized by the Popular Mobilization Forces, or PMF, a coalition of armed mostly Shiite groups.
Muhanad Hussein of the PMF’s media team said the ceremony shows the Iraqis’ sense of solidarity with the oppressed.
"The Iraqi people assert the message of the nation’s martyr, Hassan Nasrallah that we will continue on his path and approach. This is the path of free people," said Hussein.
Nasrallah was killed on Sept. 27 when Israel’s air force dropped more than 80 bombs on Hezbollah’s main operations room in southern Beirut.
It was the biggest and most consequential of Israel’s targeted killings in years.
Nasrallah was buried following a crowded funeral in Beirut on Sunday after being temporarily buried in a secret location.
The death of Nasrallah, one of the Iran-backed Shiite group’s founders and Hezbollah’s leader of more than 30 years, was a huge blow to the group he had transformed into a potent force in the Middle East.
Nasrallah, idolized by his supporters and with large followings among the Shiites and the Islamic world, also held the title of sayyid, an honorific meant to signify the Shiite cleric’s lineage dating back to the Prophet Muhammad, the founder of Islam.
Hezbollah, which the U.S. and some of its allies has designated a terrorist organization, has suffered significant losses in the latest war with Israel, including the killing of several of its most senior military and political figures.
As part of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire that ended the war with Israel on Nov. 27, Hezbollah is not supposed to have an armed presence along the border with Israel.
AP video shot by Ali Jabar
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