Tehran – Hassan Nasrara, one of the most powerful Arabs in the Middle East, has left a lasting mark in modern Lebanon, Arab-Israel conflicts and the wider regions.
He was a 64-year-old martyr in a series of powerful Israeli air attacks in southern Beirut on September 27th.
Under Nasrala, whose surname is translated as “Divine Victory,” Hezbollah has grown from a local armed movement to the largest political party in Lebanon’s recent history.
In the 2018 parliamentary elections, Hezbollah won over 340,000 priority votes.
In October 2021, Israeli nightmare Nasrara announced that Hezbollah has 100,000 fighter jets, making it one of the world’s most powerful armed groups.
Nasrala has been attracting attention since the Middle East and beyond, but it has long been noted in the axis of resistance, including Hezbollah, the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas and Islamic jihad, the Hooti movement in Yemen, and several Iraqi resistance groups. It was.
Nasrara was born in 1960 to a poor Shia family in Sharshabok, a less fortunate area of Karantina in East Beirut. With an interest in religion during Young, he was inspired by Sayed Musa Sadr, an Iranian-born imam of Lebanese descent.
The movement of the stolen people, well known as Amal, to secure more power in Lebanon’s neglected Shiite communities and to improve the situation in the East and South Lebanon.
The Civil War broke out in Lebanon in April 1975. In July, Saddle set up the Lebanese Resistance Brigade, the armed wing of Amal, to protect Southern Lebanon from Israeli invasions.
Nasrara joined Amal. As the civil war escalated, his family moved primarily from East Beirut, Christian, to the ancestral village of Tyre Bazoolie.
In December 1976, Nasrala stayed to study at the city’s religious seminary (Hausa), which advocated a more active role for Shiite religious scholars, towards Najaf, Iraq. There he met Syed Abbas Musawi, a Lebanese scholar.
In early 1978, Nasrara and Mussawi returned to Lebanon due to the crackdown of Shiite Iraqi bacists. Musawi established a religious seminary in Baarbek, where Nasrara continued his studies.
The following year, Nasrala and Musawi supported Iranian Imam Ruhola Khomeini, who was now an official of Amal – who founded the Islamic Republic of Iran.
In June 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon after an attempt to assassinate Israel’s London ambassador Shlomoargoff by the Abnidal organization, a fragment group of PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization).
Israel had intended to siege Beirut for 10 weeks before occupying it in September, kicking out the PLO and setting up a friendly puppet government. The attack killed at least 20,000 Lebanese and Palestinians, mostly civilians and more than 370 Israelis.
To address the effects of the invasion, Lebanon President Elias Sarkis is a unified national rescue committee member including Navi Beli, the leading Christian Alliance in Lebanon, and Lebanese military leader Bashir Jemaiel. We have established a meeting.
However, Musawi, Nasrara and others who supported Imam Khomeini condemned betrayal by joining the committee, who died from Amal. They said armed resistance was the only answer.
The exiles founded Hezbollah in the summer of 1982. It supported the Shea doctrine of Imam Khomeini’s Velayat e Faki (known as Wilayat al Faki in Arabic).
In 1982, Hezbollah launched a guerrilla war driving Israel from Lebanon. According to the Middle Eastern Eye, it was a prelude to liberate the historic Palestine occupied by Zionist settlers.
By the summer of 1985, Israel had left much of South Lebanon amid ongoing attacks and occupied a series of communities near the border. However, Hezbollah pushed out Israeli forward post base in the so-called security zone and attacked it.
That summer, Shia groups hijacked the TWA 847 and landed in Beirut. One hostage was killed. The remaining 152 people, more than half of whom were Americans, were released after Israel released 700 Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners.
How did Nasrara become Hezbollah’s leader?
In 1985, Nasrara was head of Hezbollah’s Executive Council and became a member of its Shura Council. He often went to Iran to consult with and receive updates on the ongoing Iran and Iraq war in the 1980s.
In February 1992, Musawi was assassinated in an Israeli air attack, now the executive director of Hezbollah.
Nasrara took over Hezbollah and under his leadership the group was able to acquire long-range rockets and target more regions in northern Israel.
In the summer of 1992 he held the candidate for the first postwar parliamentary election to which Hezbollah won 12 seats. Since then, he has participated in all parliamentary elections.
Of all the armed groups that opposed Israel, Hezbollah caused the most difficulties for the Israeli army.
Since the establishment of Hezbollah in 1982, there has been no year in which there has been no replacement of fires or rocket fires between both sides.
In the mid-1990s, Hezbollah expanded military operations in Israeli-occupied territories, using Israel in undeniable guerrilla warfare, insisting that it would restore the area and “allow displaced people to return home.”
In May 2000, Israel retreated from South Lebanon. This was the first time that it ended the occupation of Arab territory without treaty or security contracts. The move examined Nasrara’s longstanding argument that only armed resistance could restore Arab lands.