Hassan Nasrallah

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Hassan Nasrallah ( Arabic حسن نصر الله Hasan Nasrallāh , DMG Ḥasan Naṣrallāh ; * August 31, 1960 in Beirut ) is a Lebanese politician. He has been Secretary General of the Lebanese party and organization Hezbollah since 1992. Nasrallah is Shiite Muslim.

Life

Nasrallah was born to a grocer, the oldest of nine children. His family comes from the village of Bassouriyeh in the predominantly Shiite south of Lebanon. During the Lebanese civil war , the family had to leave Beirut and flee back to their place of origin. There Nasrallah joined the Shiite movement Amal . During the Lebanese civil war, he devoted himself intensively to the study of Islam in the port city of Tire , whereupon the imam of the main mosque gave him a letter of recommendation to the Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir as-Sadr , a leading cleric in Najaf , Iraq , who was there in 1980 or 1981 on request was murdered by Saddam Hussein .

education

After completing his high school education , he went to Najaf in 1976 to study at the Hauwza (Islamic-theological school on a Shiite basis). He also studied in Qom, Iran . In 1978 he, along with hundreds of Lebanese Islamists and students, was expelled from Iraq by the secular Ba'ath Party and returned to Lebanon. In 1982, after the invasion of Israel , Nasrallah Sayyid Abbas al-Musawi followed and left the Amal. He joined a Lebanese organization called Hezbollah ("Party of God").

Hezbollah political leadership

When the Israeli army killed the leader of Hezbollah, Sayyid Abbas al-Musawi , his wife and three children in February 1992 , Nasrallah was elected by the Hezbollah Central Committee ( madschlis ash-shura ) as Hezbollah's new political leader. Hadi, one of his four children, was killed in 1997 while fighting Israel. His comment was: "It was God given that Hadi should be a martyr ."

Under Nasrallah's leadership, Hezbollah also found some acceptance among the Christian population of Lebanon. For a time he was able to put large parts of Lebanese society behind him , regardless of religion or denomination , in the fight against the then Israeli occupying power. He is therefore regarded as the man under whose leadership Hezbollah, after a long guerrilla war, led Israel to decide to end the eighteen-year occupation of southern Lebanon by the Israeli army in 2000 and to withdraw from the area. Also under his initiative, one living and three dead Israelis were surrendered in January 2004 , whereupon Israel released 23 Lebanese and around 400 Palestinian prisoners. The Israelis were captured or killed as part of Operation Promise Keeping.

Immediately after the start of the Second Lebanon War, Nasrallah's house and his office in Beirut were bombed by Israeli fighter jets on July 14, 2006, he threatened an “open war” against Israel.

Positions

Nasrallah sticks to the beleaguered Assad government in Syria , but supported the Tunisian , Egyptian and Yemeni opposition, which successfully overthrew the governments of their countries.

Public effect

Nasrallah, whose name means "victory of God", is worshiped almost ritually by his followers. The General Secretary of the “Party of God” always appears in public in traditional Shiite clothing and a turban. Nasrallah was the first person to talk to on Julian Assange's controversial talk show The World Tomorrow in April 2012 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hassan Nasrallah in the Munzinger archive , accessed on October 14, 2009 ( beginning of article freely available)
  2. ^ The Christian Science Monitor: Israeli strikes may boost Hizbullah base. July 28, 2006.
  3. ↑ Nasrallah declares "open war" on Israel . in: Der Tagesspiegel . July 14, 2006.
  4. ↑ a b F.AZ on April 17, 2012: Obskurantentreff on Russian television. Retrieved May 5, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Nasrallah, Hassan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nasrallah, Sayyid Hassan; سيّد حسن نصر الله
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lebanese politician, General Secretary of the Lebanese Islamic Liberation Movement Hezbollah
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Beirut