Source close to Lebanon's Hezbollah says slain leader Hassan Nasrallah temporarily buried
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Hezbollah's Hassan Nasrallah temporarily buried in secret location due to fear of Israeli targeting large funeral.
A source close to Hezbollah said on Friday (October 4, 2024) that the Lebanese militant group's slain chief Hassan Nasrallah has been temporarily buried in a secret location for fear Israel would target a large funeral.
"Hassan Nasrallah has been temporarily buried, until the circumstances allow for a public funeral," the source said, after an Israeli strike killed the leader last week.
The source said a public funeral had been impossible to hold "for fear of Israeli threats they would target mourners and the place of his burial".
Shiite Muslim rites provide for such a temporary burial when circumstances prevent a proper funeral or the deceased cannot be buried where they wished.
A Lebanese official who spoke on condition of anonymity said Hezbollah had, through top Lebanese officials, sought but failed to obtain "guarantees" from the United States, a key ally of Israel, that Israel would not target a public funeral.
Amid intensifying Israeli bombardment of Hezbollah, a massive strike on its south Beirut stronghold on September 27 killed Nasrallah alongside an Iranian Revolutionary Guards general.
Israel said it killed around 20 members of the Iran-backed militant group. Nasrallah still does not have a successor a week after he was killed.
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