<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr">Hezbollah issued a statement announcing the martyrdom of its Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah in the raids that targeted the party's central command headquarters in the southern suburb of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, yesterday.</p><h2 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="color:hsl( 187, 48%, 51% );">The master of resistance, the righteous servant, has passed away to be with his Lord</span> </h2><figure class="image"><img style="aspect-ratio:1500/1000;" src="https://cdn.sbisiali.com/news/images/3ccbb5b1-248d-4c62-a34f-d41778850cce.jpeg" ></figure><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The statement read: "The master of resistance, the righteous servant, has passed away to be with his Lord and to His pleasure as a great martyr, a heroic, daring, brave, wise, insightful, and faithful leader."</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> He added: “Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary-General of Hezbollah, has joined his great immortal martyred comrades, whose path he led for thirty years, leading them from victory to victory, succeeding the martyrs of the Islamic Resistance in 1992 until the liberation of Lebanon in 2000 and to victory in 2006 and all the battles of honor and sacrifice, arriving at the battle of support and heroism in support of Palestine, Gaza, and the oppressed Palestinian people.”</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The statement added: "We congratulate Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah on receiving the highest divine medal, the Imam Hussein Medal, fulfilling his most precious wishes and the highest ranks of faith and pure belief, as a martyr on the path to Jerusalem and Palestine. We offer our condolences and congratulations to his fellow martyrs who joined his pure and holy procession following the treacherous Zionist raid on the southern suburb."</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> He said: "The leadership of Hezbollah pledges to the most precious martyr in our journey full of sacrifices and martyrs that it will continue its jihad in confronting the enemy, supporting Gaza and Palestine, and defending Lebanon and its steadfast and honorable people."</p><h3 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="color:hsl( 187, 48%, 51% );">The Israeli army announces the martyrdom of his daughter, Zainab.</span> </h3><figure class="image"><img style="aspect-ratio:300/168;" src="https://cdn.sbisiali.com/news/images/16895805-6630-4f74-bca2-6a4ac5804c7a.jpeg" ></figure><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Hezbollah's statement came hours after the Israeli army announced the success of the assassination operation, saying that its fighters dropped about 85 bunker-busting bombs, each weighing one ton of explosives, to assassinate Nasrallah.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The Israeli media also reported the martyrdom of Nasrallah's daughter, Zainab, but no statement was issued confirming or denying this news.</p><h4 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="color:hsl( 187, 48%, 51% );">Who is Hassan Nasrallah?</span> </h4><figure class="image"><img style="aspect-ratio:372/209;" src="https://cdn.sbisiali.com/news/images/ca745ae6-2259-45f1-b442-b514f0f17b58.jpg" ></figure><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Mr. Nasrallah was born in 1960 in Burj Hammoud.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> He received his religious education in centers and seminaries in Lebanon, Iraq and Iran.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> He joined the Amal Movement during his high school studies and rose through the ranks until he became a member of its political bureau in 1979.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> He withdrew from the Amal Movement in 1982 along with a number of officials following disagreements over how to confront the Israeli invasion of Lebanon.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> He joined Hezbollah in 1982 and assumed the position of its Secretary-General in 1992 after Israel assassinated his predecessor, Abbas al-Musawi.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Nasrallah led a series of qualitative operations against Israel, forcing it to withdraw from southern Lebanon in 2000.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> In 2004, Nasrallah played a pivotal role in the largest prisoner exchange deal between Hezbollah and Israel.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> He achieved a great victory in the July 2006 war, which lasted 34 days.</p>