Sayed Hassan Nasrallah is now confirmed martyred. He was the third Secretary General of Hezbollah, a Lebanese based political, social and armed resistance movement.

Nasrallah is Hezobllah’s most recognizable political and religious figure. Under Nasrallah, whose name translates as “victory through God”, Hezbollah has grown from a local movement to the largest political party in Lebanon’s recent history.

He was born on August 31, 1960 in the south Lebanon village of al-Bazouriyeh, on the outskirts of the city of Tyre. He was the eldest of Abdel-Karim Nasrallah’s eight children.

Nasrallah spent his childhood reading the Qur’an and studying Islamic religious texts and claims to have become fully observant by age 9.

Nasrallah organized the local religious youth into a study group at the village’s Islamic library and joined the Amal Party – which appointed him as its village representative at the age of 15.

In 1978, Nasrallah married Fatima Mustafa Yassine, who hails from the south Lebanon village of al-Abbassiyeh. Together, they had five children: Mohammad Hadi (killed by the IOF in 1997), Mohammad Jawad, Zeinab, Mohammad Ali, and Mohammad Mahdi.

During the early 1980s, Nasrallah became a notable guerilla fighter and commander, rising through the party’s ranks.

In 1987, he resumed his religious studies, traveling to the Iranian city of Qom. In 1991, Nasrallah was appointed to head Hezbollah’s Executive Council from 1991 for about a year. Nasrallah was later chosen to replace his mentor Abbas al-Mousaoui as Secretary General of the party upon the assassination of al-Mousaoui in an Israeli strike in February 1992.

In July of 1993, Nasrallah was officially elected by Hezbollah’s Shura Council as its new Secretary General, a position he has held for thirty-two years.

Under Hassan Nasrallah’s leadership, Hezbollah engaged in multiple confrontations with Zionist-Israel. Following Israel’s defeat and withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000, Nasrallah achieved iconic status in Lebanon and across the Arab world.

On 14 July 2006, during a speech, Nasrallah urged people in Beirut to look west to the Mediterranean coast. As they did so, Hezbollah fired a surface-to-sea missile against an Israeli naval ship, killing and wounding several crew. By August 2006 when Hezbollah again defeated the Zionist entity during the 34-day war, this under Nasrallah’s leadership.

In the 2018 parliamentary elections, Hezbollah won more than 340,000 preferential votes, the most for any party in Lebanon since independence.

Since October 7th, Hezbollah has launched attacks on Israeli occupation military positions, as well as to drive settlers from the North of the occupied lands. Nasrallah said Hezbollah’s cross-border operations have diverted Israeli occupation forces and emphasized that Hezbollah will persist in its operations on Israel until a cease-fire is established in Gaza.