Who is Hassan Nasrallah, whom is IDF after? Understand the whole story of Hezbollah Chief in 5 points.

Hassan Nasrallah: Hassan Nasrallah escaped the Israeli attack on Hezbollah’s headquarters in Lebanon’s capital Beirut on Friday (September 27). A source close to him has denied reports claiming that Hassan Nasrallah has been killed in the attack on the terrorist group’s headquarters.

Hezbollah has said that Chief Hassan Nasrallah is absolutely fine despite the Israeli attack. According to the AFP report, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said that the central headquarters of Hezbollah was hit with precision. These attacks have been carried out for the safety of the people of Israel.

Who is Hassan Nasrallah?

• Hassan Nasrallah was born on August 31, 1960 in the northern Burj Hammoud suburb of Beirut. Nasrallah is the son of a poor grocer and had eight brothers and sisters.
• Nasrallah has been the Secretary General of Hezbollah since February 1992. 64-year-old Nasrallah has replaced Abbas al-Musawi. Musavi was killed by Israel.
• In a 2014 interview, Nasrallah said he did not live in a bunker, but admitted to ‘regularly changing sleeping locations’. “The purpose of the security measures is to keep movements secret, but it does not prevent me from moving around and seeing what is happening,” Nasrallah told Al-Akhbar, a Lebanese newspaper sympathetic to Hezbollah.
• Officials and journalists who have met Nasrallah in recent years have described ‘strict security measures’. He told that he could not find out where he was taken to meet Nasrallah. Over the past two decades, Nasrallah has recorded most of his speeches and broadcast them from a secret location.
• Nasrallah, described as a ‘talented’ public speaker, is married and has four children. His eldest son, a Hezbollah fighter, was killed in an Israeli ambush in September 1997.

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