Nigeria’s Top Shia Cleric in Lebanon to Attend Funeral of Nasrallah
He arrived at Beirut international airport on Saturday morning to join other international figures and personalities attending the funeral of former Hezbollah secretary general Sayed Hassan Nasrallah and another senior Hezbollah official Sayed Hashem Safieddine.
The funeral procession is set to take place on Sunday at 1:00 p.m. local time.
Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem will address the procession.
According to reports, official delegations from various countries are in Lebanon for the event.
The committee set up to organize the funeral said in a statement on Friday that freedom seekers from around the world have begun their journey to Beirut, and the number of participants is such that the streets will not be able to accommodate them all in a single day.
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Nasrallah was martyred on September 27, 2024, in an Israeli airstrike that used American-made bunker buster bombs. Safieddine too was killed in an Israeli attack in October.
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