A funeral for Hashem Safieddine, who had been elected to succeed Nasrallah before he, too, was eliminated by Israel, is to be held the same day.
The head of the Iranian-backed Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah said on Sunday that his predecessor, Hassan Nasrallah, will be buried on Feb. 23, nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike.
While “security conditions” prevented a funeral during the war with Israel that ended with the Nov. 27 truce, the terror organization’s leadership has now decided to hold a “grand procession” for its slain chief near the Beirut airport, Naim Qassem said in a televised speech.
“We hope that it will be a grand funeral procession befitting this great personality,” he stated in remarks translated by Agence France-Presse.