After more than 30 years as the terror group’s head, Hassan Nasrallah, the Chief of Hezbollah was murdered in an Israeli attack leaving behind a solid net worth
The Israel Dรฉfense Forces announced in a statement that Hassan Nasrallah, 64, died on Friday after a huge airstrike on the Iran-backed group’s “central headquarters” in Beirut, Lebanon.
Hezbollah Chief Hassan Nasrallah cause of death, biography, age, family, wife, children, education, religion and net worth
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๐จBreaking: The target of the attack in Beirut is Hassan Nasrallah.
He received several warnings from Israel during the war.
And didn’t listen to them even when it was clear that Israel could eliminate him at any moment it chose. pic.twitter.com/T3yybqKxSO
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After confirming Nasrallah’s passing, Hezbollah declared that its founder “has joined his fellow martyrs.”
According to the IDF, the attack also claimed the lives of additional Hezbollah leaders and Ali Karki, the commander of the organization’s southern front. “Embedded under a residential building,” the IDF stated, was the command facility housing the leaders. According to an Israeli military official, they were able to execute the hit because of real-time intelligence about an operational opportunity.
Hassan Nasrallah, a Lebanese theologian and the secretary-general of Hezbollah, a Shia Islamist political party and militant force, was born on August 31, 1960, and passed away on September 27, 2024. The 64 year old was a Shai Muslim.
Nasrallah was born into a Shia family in a Beirut suburb and his father Abdul Karim ran a small greengrocers. He completed his secondary schooling in Tyre before temporarily joining the Amal Movement and then attending the Shiสฟi seminary in Baalbek to complete his higher religion studies. Later, he worked as a teacher and student in an Amal school.
He was among ten children in his family and went to Al Najah school, and then a public school in Sin el-Fil, Beirut. The civil war in 1975 caused his family to move to their old home in Bassouriyeh.
Huge attack by Israel on Beirut using at least 10 bunker busters JDAM to penetrate underground. Target is Hassan Nasrallah in the Hezbollah HQ. Where once stood a neighborhood is now dust. pic.twitter.com/JWz8h6BzZL
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Muhammad Javed, Muhammad Ali, Muhammad Mahdi, and Zainab were the four children of Nasrallah and Fatimah Yasin and survived by wife Fatima Yassin who he married in 1978 and had 3 sons and one daughter with. Fatima Mustafa Yassine hails from the south Lebanon village of al-Abbassiyeh. Hassan had a net worth of $250 million.
Hezbollah was founded to oppose Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982, and Nasrallah became a member of it. Following a brief stint studying religion in Iran, Nasrallah returned to Lebanon and took over as leader of Hezbollah following the assassination of his predecessor in 1992 by an Israeli airstrike.
Hassan Nasrallah career
Following the Israelis’ 1992 assassination of Hezbollah’s prior leader, Musawi, Hassan Nasrallah assumed leadership of the organization. Despite Israel’s control of southern Lebanon, Hezbollah was able to hit northern Israel thanks to the longer-range rockets it gained under Nasrallah’s leadership.
Israel conducted Operation Accountability in 1993. Israel declared the operation successful, but most of Lebanon’s infrastructure was destroyed. Eventually, a deal was made whereby Hezbollah agreed to cease its strikes on northern Israel and Israel ceased its attacks in Lebanon.
In 2004, Nasrallah was a key player in an intricate prisoner swap agreement between Israel and Hezbollah that released hundreds of Palestinian and Lebanese inmates and returned several human remains, including his son’s, to Lebanon. The accord was widely regarded in the Arab world as a stunning triumph for Hezbollah, and Nasrallah was commended individually for attaining these advantages.
In an announcement made on May 25, 2013, Nasrallah stated that Hezbollah is battling “Islamist extremists” in the Syrian civil war and “promised that his group will not allow Syrian militants to control areas that border Lebanon.”