Hassan Nasrallah

January 3, 2021, 9:48 pm

A year on, Hezbollah says Iran ‘doesn’t need help’ avenging its top general

Terror chief Nasrallah says Tehran will retaliate for US assassination of Soleimani ‘when it decides to’; says Hezbollah will preserve ‘atmosphere of tension’ in the region

By TOI staff and Agencies

Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah gives an address on official party al-Manar TV on September 29, 2020. (Screenshot: Al-Manar)

December 28, 2020, 2:45 am

Nasrallah claims Saudi-Israeli plot to kill him; says precision missiles doubled

Hezbollah chief says his terror group can hit anywhere in Israel, and is still committed to avenging its fighter killed in Syria and Iran’s slain top general

By TOI staff

December 11, 2020, 1:22 pm

UN court gives Hezbollah killer of Lebanon’s Hariri life in prison, in absentia

Fugitive Salim Ayyash found guilty of murder and terrorism over 2005 suicide bombing that killed Sunni billionaire politician and injured 226 others; he remains on the run

By Danny Kemp

November 29, 2020, 10:33 pm

Hezbollah chief said to hunker down amid fears he could be targeted by Israel

Reported precaution follows assassination of top Iran nuclear scientist; praising the hit, an Israeli official says ‘the world is a safer place’ without Mohsen Fakhrizadeh

By TOI staff

A speech by the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah terror group's leader Hassan Nasrallah is transmitted on a large screen in the Lebanese capital Beirut's southern suburbs on September 2, 2019. (AFP)

October 31, 2020, 3:53 am

Hezbollah terror chief tells France to back down over Muhammad cartoons

After Macron defends right to caricature the Muslim prophet, Nasrallah issues warning: ‘You need to think about correcting this mistake’

By AFP

Supporters of Hezbollah carry an oxygen tank at the site of Beirut's southern suburb of Janah which Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said was a weapons depot belonging to the movement on September 29, 2020. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

September 30, 2020, 2:09 am

Taking reporters to site, Hezbollah denies Netanyahu claim of Beirut arms stores

Nasrallah calls allegations at UN ‘incitement’; journalists escorted on visit to factory alleged by PM to hold missile depot, report no weapons seen

By Aaron Boxerman

In this June 2016 photo provided by Guila Fakhoury, her father Amer Fakhoury holds his granddaughter, Kira, in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. (Guila Fakhoury via AP)

September 13, 2020, 11:18 am

Charity founded to honor ex-member of Israel-backed militia jailed by Lebanon

Foundation to honor Amer Fakhoury, who allegedly tortured prisoners while serving in SLA and died last month, seeks to provide financial and advocacy support for US hostages

By Agencies

Palestinian fishermen, mask-clad due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, prepare their fishnets along a beach off the Mediterranean Sea in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on September 2, 2020. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

September 4, 2020, 7:39 am

UAE deal shows Arab-Israel conflict starting to come apart before our eyes

Israel finds itself in a place of honor in the moderate Sunni camp against the extremist Shiites; there are even signs of a certain shift in Hamas

By Avi Issacharoff

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh meets with Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ziyad al-Nakhalah in Beirut on September 2, 2020 (Credit: al-Resalah)

September 3, 2020, 5:03 pm

Hamas chief holding rounds of talks in Beirut, will meet with Hezbollah head

Ismail Haniyeh entered Lebanon for the first time in 27 years this week, with talks with officials, Nasrallah on the docket; will take part in videoconference with Abbas

By Aaron Boxerman

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah gives a televised speech on August 30, 2020. (Screen capture: Al-Manar)

August 30, 2020, 2:55 pm

Nasrallah: We’re looking to kill an Israeli soldier — and aren’t in a hurry

Threatening revenge, Nasrallah says targeting Israeli serviceman will re-establish ‘equation of deterrence’ with Israel

By Aaron Boxerman

Hezbollah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah gives a speech in the aftermath of the deadly explosion in Beirut, on August 7, 2020 (al-Manar screenshot)

August 26, 2020, 11:49 pm

Nasrallah calls Tuesday night border clash with Israel ‘important and sensitive’

Hezbollah leader won’t comment further on exchange of fire, cryptically saying he will do so at a more appropriate time

By TOI staff

A French soldier looks at his comrades removing the debris of a school playground roof that was destroyed by Aug. 4 explosion that hit the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon, Aug. 20, 2020 (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

August 22, 2020, 10:28 am

Lebanon’s Beirut blast shatters taboos around Hezbollah

Terror group no longer seen as untouchable, but instead as complicit in the corruption that led to deadly Beirut port explosion

By AFP

Rescue workers and soldiers stand around a massive crater after a bomb attack that tore through the motorcade of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, in Beirut, Lebanon, February 14, 2005. (AP Photo)

August 18, 2020, 9:58 am

UN-backed tribunal to deliver verdict in 2005 murder of former Lebanese premier

Hezbollah refusing to hand over 4 defendants, tried in absentia, for bombing that killed Rafik Hariri, 21 others; ‘circumstantial’ evidence largely based on mobile phone records

By Sara MAGNIETTE and Jean-Marc Mojon

Illustrative: A Hezbollah supporter chants slogans as he holds his group's flag during a protest against US involvement in Lebanon's affairs, near the US embassy in Aukar, northeast of Beirut, Lebanon, July 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

August 15, 2020, 3:32 pm

Hezbollah, Lebanon’s enemy within, remains untouchable despite port catastrophe

The terror group is in a sensitive position given its role in weakening the country — but while protestors fume, they cannot and dare not muster truly meaningful opposition

By Avi Issacharoff

Smoke rises from the scene of the explosion in the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon, August 5, 2020. (AP/Hussein Malla, File)

August 15, 2020, 3:05 pm

FBI team to arrive in Beirut this weekend to join port explosion probe

Many Lebanese fear political factions, notorious for corruption, won’t allow damaging results to come to light; Hezbollah’s Nasrallah says don’t trust ‘international’ investigators

By Bassem Mroue