From Hezbollah building elaborate shrine for slain leader Nasrallah
The Hezbollah terror group is constructing an elaborate shrine that it hopes to have ready for the planned funeral of slain leader Hassan Nasrallah set for February 23.
Video shows construction work under way at a site on the outskirts of Beirut that his successor Naim Qassem had said had been chosen as the site.
*Beirut:* The tomb and shrine to Hassan Nasrallah under construction ahead of his planned funeral. pic.twitter.com/zDQ1tkdwQg
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Images of the plans show an elaborate plaza with a central dome where he will be interred. The site will be festooned with images of him and Hezbollah flags.
Earlier this month Qassem said that Nasrallah, would be laid to rest on Feb. 23, nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli air attack on Beirut’s southern suburbs.
Nasrallah, who had served as Hezbollah’s secretary general for more than 30 years, was killed on Sept. 27 as Israel ramped up its air attacks on Hezbollah targets and just days before Israeli troops began ground incursions into southern Lebanon.
The shrine for the slain Hezbollah leaders Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safi al-Din is supposed to look like this. It is expected to be on built on the road leading to Beirut International Airport in Bourj el-Barajneh neighborhood of Beirut. pic.twitter.com/lJCbOWtCOD
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Qassem said in a televised address that Nasrallah was killed “at a time when circumstances were difficult,” forcing the group to conduct a temporary burial for him according to religious tradition.
Qassem said the group had now decided to hold “a grand funeral procession with a large public presence” for both Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine, another top Hezbollah official killed in an Israeli strike nearly a week after Nasrallah.
