Hezbollah to hold mass funeral in Beirut today for military chief killed in IDF strike

By AFP and ToI Staff 24 November 2025, 1:13 pm

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Left: Rescuers search for survivors at the site of an airstrike that killed Hezbollah's military chief in a residential building in Beirut's southern Haret Hreik neighborhood on November 23, 2025. (Ibrahim Amro/AFP); Right: Hezbollah military chief Haytham Ali Tabatabai, in a poster issued by the terror group after his death. (Hezbollah Media Office)

Hezbollah is set to hold the funeral today for its top military chief and other members of the terror group, a day after Israel killed them with a strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs.

Haytham Ali Tabatabai is the most senior Hezbollah commander to be killed by Israel since a November 2024 ceasefire sought to end over a year of hostilities between the two sides, sparked when the terror group began firing rockets and drones at Israel on October 8, 2023.

The terror group calls on its supporters to attend the mass funeral for its “great leader” Tabatabai, which will take place in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, a densely populated area where it holds sway.