War-killed cleric Hassan Nasrallah

• Nasrallah became Secretary-General of Hezbollah in 1992, following the assassination of Abbas al-Musawi.
• He initiated rocket attacks into northern Israel, resulting in the death of a security officer and a suicide bomber at the Israeli embassy in Turkiye and Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• Nasrallah turned Hezbollah into a multifaceted movement, with a military wing more powerful than the Lebanese Army.
• Nasrallah’s leadership marked the beginning of Hezbollah’s violent resistance against Israel’s occupation of southern Lebanon.
• Hezbollah turned the’security zone’ into an ‘insecurity zone’ through rocket attacks and ambushes.
• Despite Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000, Hezbollah continued to fight, claiming victory.
• Nasrallah’s leadership also influenced the civil war in Syria, where Hezbollah was threatened by rebel and jihadist groups.
• Hezbollah began firing rockets into Israel in solidarity with the Palestinians after Israel launched its retaliatory war on Gaza.
• Nasrallah’s assassination on September 27, 2023, dealt the heaviest blow to Hezbollah, indicating that he led the group in wars.