“The Taliban state presented a very hideous example of an Islamic state.”
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Hasan Nasrallah
Hassan Nasrallah was a Lebanese Shia cleric, a militant, and politician who served as the third secretary-general of Hezbollah, a Shia Islamist political party and militia, from 1992 until his assassination in 2024.
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politics · Secretary-General of Hezbollah from 1992 to 2024 · ulema · military leader · politician · military commander · Islamic religious leaders · also Hasan Nasrallah, Hassan Nasrallah, Nasrallah
Born 31 August 1960 · Died 27 September 2024 · Q181182
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2026· 13 entries
“We exercise guerrilla warfare. . . . Lebanon still needs the formula of popular resistance.”
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“We used to discuss issues among ourselves. If we are to expel the Israeli occupation from our country, how do we do this? We noticed what happened in Palestine, in the West Bank, in the Gaza Strip, in the Golan, in the Sinai. We reached a conclusion that we cannot rely on the Arab League states, nor on the United Nations,”
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“If there had been a Muslim to carry out Imam Khomeini”
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“The Lebanese refuse to give the Palestinians residing in Lebanon Lebanese citizenship, and we refuse their resettlement in Lebanon. There is Lebanese consensus on this... we thank God that we all agree on one clear and definite result; namely, that we reject the resettlement of the Palestinians in Lebanon.”
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“if research was done on the internet websites posting such unfounded information, it would reveal that they are all being run from that same dark room, and that their aim is to serve American-Israeli interests.”
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MTV Lebanon: Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah: Israeli state did not submit any video showing the unmanned drone in order to prove the fact that a drone was shot down
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MTV Lebanon: Zasypkin to MTV: We didn't ask Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah to pull out his fighters from Syria
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MTV Lebanon: Nasrallah: It is silly to believe that we hide martyrs away from the media
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Daily Beirut: Nasrallah Urges Gavi Support for Lebanon Vaccination
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MTV Lebanon: Gemayel addressing Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah: Is the Syrian regime worth the lives of Lebanese people getting killed in Syrian conflict?
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Ynetnews: Naim Qassem is no Nasrallah, and Lebanon knows it
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MTV Lebanon: Nasrallah: what's happening in Syria is not helping Syria to get out from war with Israel but it aims at destroying Syria
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2024· 20 entries
Reported claimRated Not true. The video is from a 2020 protest in Lebanon, four years before Hassan Nasrallah’s death. · Full Fact
Full Fact rated the claim “A video shows Lebanese citizens celebrating the death of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.” Not true. The video is from a 2020 protest in Lebanon, four years before Hassan Nasrallah’s death..
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fact checker rated the claim “Nasrallah's ring. His body was identified by it.” misleading.
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BOOM Fact Check rated the claim “Video shows Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu celebrating the death of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah by whistling while riding in a car.” False.
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fact checker rated the claim “Roqaya Al-Asr mourns her father, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.” misleading.
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India Today rated the claim “This video shows Israeli soldiers who killed Hassan Nasrallah dancing and celebrating after returning to their base.” False.
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India Today rated the claim “This video shows Lebanese citizens celebrating Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah’s death.” Mostly false.
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fact checker rated the claim “Popular celebrations in the streets of Beirut after news of the killing of Hassan Nasrallah.” misleading.
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fact checker rated the claim “Lebanese citizens are also celebrating the kotletification of the tyrant Nasrallah.” misleading.
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Died 2024-09-27.
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India Today rated the claim “This video shows Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah crying after the recent Israeli attacks on Lebanon.” Mostly false.
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News Mobile rated the claim “Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu watching a speech by Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah” Misleading.
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fact checker rated the claim “Netanyahu carefully watches and listens to the speech of the general secretary of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah” fake.
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“And on this last day of the century, I promise Israel that it will see more suicide attacks, for we will write our history with blood.”
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“No hay solución al conflicto en esta región excepto con la desaparición de Israel».[There is no solution to the conflict in this region except with the disappearance of Israel]”
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“Los acuerdos de paz no cambiarán la realidad, que es que Israel es el enemigo y que nunca será un vecino ni una nación».[Peace settlements will not change reality, which is that Israel is the enemy and that it will never be a neighbor or a nation]”
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“Nuestros comandantes, combatientes, mujeres y niños serán martirizados; estamos unidos en el sacrificio: esta es la realidad de la resistencia y este es nuestro camino hasta el día del juicio».[Our commanders, fighters, women, and children will be martyred; we are united in sacrifice – this is the reality of resistance, and this is our path until the day of judgment]”
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“As we see, this is an illegal state; it is a cancerous entity and the root of all the crises and wars and cannot be a factor in bringing about a true and just peace in this region. Therefore, we cannot acknowledge the existence of a state called Israel, not even far in the future, as some people have tried to suggest. Time does not cancel the legitimacy of the Palestinian claim.”
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“Israel is our enemy. This is an aggressive, illegal, and illegitimate entity, which has no future in our land. Its destiny is manifested in our motto: 'Death to Israel.”
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“[T]he Jews will gather from all parts of the world into occupied Palestine, not in order to bring about the anti-Christ and the end of the world, but rather that Allah the Glorified and Most High wants to save you from having to go to the ends of the world [to kill them], for they have gathered in one place–they have gathered in one place–and there the final and decisive battle will take place.”
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According to Syrian opposition media, Nasrallah was a brother-in-law of Hezbollah commander Wissam al-Tawil, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in January 2024.
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2023· 2 entries
“s missile and drone attacks against northern Israel, which began immediately after 7 October, were carried out in solidarity with the Palestinians. Islamist extremism According to Saudi state-owned Al Arabiya, a video posted on their site is of Nasrallah giving a speech circa 1988 in which he states,”
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“The United States has announced a clear and shameful project, which it embraced and is promoting day and night. It has to do with spreading homosexuality around the world. It calls for abnormal, deviant, and depraved relations between two men or two women.”
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2022· 1 entry
Claimed: ““The United States is responsible for the war in Syria.”” — rated False by VOA.
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2016· 1 entry
But as of 2024 no longer views it as one
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2013· 1 entry
“is a cancer that must be eradicated.”
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2012· 1 entry
“I say that the American administration and the American mentality lacks nothing from Satanism. But that kind of behavior and that kind of mistreatment of holy books [referring to the Quran burning incident in Afghanistan in February 2012] and prophets, and the prophets”
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2009· 1 entry
Nasrallah disavowed opposition to Jews, only to Israel: "Our problem with [the Israelis] is not that they are Jews, but that they are occupiers who are raping our land and holy places
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2007· 1 entry
Lebanese singer Alaa Zalzali composed a tribute song entitled "Ya Nasrallah"
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2006· 1 entry
“It is unacceptable, it is forbidden, to harm the innocent [...] To have Iraqis confronting the occupation army, this is natural. But if there are American tourists, or intellectuals, doctors, or professors who have nothing to do with this war, they are innocent, even though they are Americans, and it is forbidden. It is not acceptable to harm them.”
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2005· 1 entry
“Al-Manar television (2 February 2005)”
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2004· 4 entries
His son's remains were returned to Lebanon in 2004, as part of the prisoner exchange deal between Israel and Hezbollah where Nasrallah played a major role.
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Whether he was prepared to live with a two-state settlement between Israel and Palestine, he said he would not sabotage what is a "Palestinian matter", but that until such a settlement is reached, he will continue to enc
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As part of the prisoner exchange deal between Israel and Hezbollah where Nasrallah played a major role
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Resulting in hundreds of Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners being freed and many human remains, including that of his son, being returned to Lebanon
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2003· 1 entry
“At the end of the road, no one can go to war on behalf of the Palestinians, even if that one is not in agreement with what the Palestinians agreed on.”
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2002· 1 entry
“Al-Manar, BBC Monitoring. (27 September 2002)”
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2001· 2 entries
“What do the Jews want? They want security and money. Throughout history the Jews have been Allah”
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“United Press International. (4 November 2001)”
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2000· 6 entries
Ehud Barak withdrew Israeli forces from Lebanon
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“We have liberated the south. Next we”
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“Al-Hayat (2 January 2000)”
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“The Washington Post. (2 February 2000). Interview conducted by Antoine K. Kehdy of Middle East Insight magazine.”
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“On Egyptian television (6 February 2000)”
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After the 18-year occupation of southern Lebanon, a decision widely considered in Lebanon to have been due to Hezbollah's attacks
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1998· 1 entry
Between the Chairman of the PLO Yasser Arafat and Israel, Nasrallah called for Arafat's assassination saying Palestinian police must come out “like Khaled al-Islambuli" (the assassin of former Egyptian President Anwar Sa
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1996· 1 entry
Israel launched Operation Grapes of Wrath, blocking important Lebanese harbour cities and bombing a Syrian military base
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1993· 1 entry
Israel carried out Operation Accountability which resulted in the destruction of much of Lebanon's infrastructure, and Israel claimed the operation was successful
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1992· 1 entry
Career landmark: Secretary General of Hezbollah (1992–2024).
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1991· 1 entry
Nasrallah returned to Lebanon and the next year replaced Musawi as Hezbollah's leader after the latter was killed by an Israeli airstrike
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1990· 1 entry
Studied at Qom Hawza (1989–1990).
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1989· 1 entry
Hassan Nasrallah traveled to Qom, Iran, where he furthered his religious studies
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1982· 2 entries
Nasrallah helped organize the group that would become Hezbollah, which was formed initially to repel the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
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Nasrallah served as a founding member of Hezbollah, which was formed to fight the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, declaring that its confrontation with Israel "should only end when it has been removed from existence"
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1979· 1 entry
By that time having completed the first part of his study, as Saddam Hussein was expelling many Shias including the future Iranian supreme leader, Ruhollah Khomeini, and also Abbas Musawi
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1978· 1 entry
Studied at Najaf Seminary (1976–1978).
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1976· 1 entry
At 16, Nasrallah traveled to Iraq where he was admitted into al-Sadr's seminary in Najaf
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1975· 1 entry
The outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War forced the family, including Nasrallah, who was 15 at the time, to move to their ancestral home in Bazourieh, where Nasrallah completed his secondary education at the public school
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1960· 2 entries
Born 1960-08-31.
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Nasrallah finished his education in Tyre, when he briefly joined the Amal Movement, and afterward at a Shia seminary in Baalbek
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