{"id":28062,"date":"2025-02-24T19:41:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T16:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/mourners-throng-funeral-for-martyr-hezbollah-chief-safieddine\/"},"modified":"2025-02-24T19:41:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T16:11:20","slug":"mourners-throng-funeral-for-martyr-hezbollah-chief-safieddine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/mourners-throng-funeral-for-martyr-hezbollah-chief-safieddine\/","title":{"rendered":"Mourners throng funeral for martyr Hezbollah chief Safieddine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/5396039.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah residence movement announced that Safieddine, who, before his martyrdom, was head of the Executive Council of Hezbollah, will be buried in his hometown of Deir Qanoun al-Naher in southern Lebanon on Monday, Press TV reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mourners gathered at a stadium in the Lebanese capital on Sunday for the funeral ceremony\u00a0of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Safieddine.<\/p>\n<p>An estimated 1.4 million people, including delegations from nearly 70\u00a0countries, participated in the funeral procession.<\/p>\n<p>Israel assassinated Nasrallah on September 27, 2024, and Safieddine on October 3 the same year.<\/p>\n<p>Regional resistance groups say Israel&#8217;s \u201ccowardly assassination\u201d of Hezbollah leaders has only strengthened the determination to continue his path in Palestine, Lebanon, and beyond.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In separate remarks on Sunday, Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem hailed Nasrallah for \u201creviving the Palestinian cause,\u201d saying the Lebanese resistance group \u201cwill preserve this trust and will continue to tread this path.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hamas also recalled \u201cthe heroic and honorable positions of the martyr Nasrallah, his firm and principled adoption of the Palestinian cause, and his insistence on forming a support front with our people in the Gaza Strip.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>MNA<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/228884\/Mourners-throng-funeral-for-martyr-Hezbollah-chief-Safieddine\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah residence movement announced that Safieddine, who, before his martyrdom, was head of the Executive Council of Hezbollah, will be buried in his hometown of Deir Qanoun al-Naher in southern Lebanon on Monday, Press TV reported.\u00a0 Mourners gathered at a stadium in the Lebanese capital on Sunday for the funeral ceremony\u00a0of Hezbollah leader Sayyed &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}