2024-10-01 18:40:24
After the death of Hassan Nasrallah evacuate the Bulgarians from Lebanon
The assassination of the leader of the “Hezbollah” group, Hassan Nasrallah, exacerbated the tension in the Middle East to the extreme, and with it, the concerns of a number of countries about the safety of their citizens in Lebanon.
It is for this reason that on Sunday Bulgaria began preparations for the phased evacuation by air of our compatriots who have declared that they want to leave Lebanon. “We need to act quickly, but the main thing is the safety of the Bulgarian citizens – both those who wish to evacuate and the teams that will carry out the evacuation”, declared our acting Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev at a meeting in the Council of Ministers on Sunday, at which it was decided how our country will get its citizens out of Lebanon safely. All our compatriots who want to leave Lebanese territory have been identified.
The Bulgarians they will be notified of the exact time and place
of the evacuation directly through the embassy of our country in Beirut, with priority given to families with children and vulnerable groups.
The leader of the Islamist group Hezbollah, Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, was killed after Israeli missile strikes on targets in the south of the Lebanese capital Beirut late on Friday. Among them was the headquarters of the Shiite group, and a leadership meeting was held during the attack. The news of Nasrallah’s death was first announced by the Israeli army, and on Saturday Hezbollah fighters confirmed the death of their leader. On Sunday, Nasrallah’s body was found intact and removed from the site of the airstrike, a Lebanese security source told Reuters. The cause of his death was said to be possibly internal trauma from the force of the blast.
In memory of Nasrallah, Lebanon and Iraq announced three days of mourning, and Iran – five days. “The blood of the martyr Syed Nasrallah will not go in vain, just like the blood of Syed Abbas al-Moussawi,” said Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Nasrallah and Abbas Moussaoui jointly founded Hezbollah in 1982, with Moussaoui at the head of the group at that time. He was killed in 1992 by the Israeli army, and at the suggestion of Khamenei, Nasrallah became the leader of Hezbollah. He manages both the pro-Iranian group’s military wing and its political structure.
During these 32 years at the head of Hezbollah, Nasrallah’s personality was raised into a cult, and he became the most influential person in Lebanon. Under his rule, the Shiite group grew from about 1,500 fighters to a force larger than the official army. Money from Iran plays a key role – thanks to it, Hezbollah has a wide variety of land and air equipment in its arsenal. However, Nasrala uses some of them to actively participate in the lives of ordinary people, making donations to hospitals and schools.
Israel tried to kill Nasrallah several times, but he survived. For years, however, he began to avoid public appearances due to fears that he might be killed. “Nasrallah was not just a terrorist, he was the number one terrorist,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, describing him as “the main driver of the axis of evil created by Iran.”
On a personal level, little is known about Nasrallah. He was born in 1960 and is
grown up in poor Shiite family
– his father Abdul sold fruits and vegetables. He was the eldest of 9 children. After graduating from high school, he went to Iraq to be educated as a cleric in a Shiite seminary. When he was 15 years old, he became part of the military organization “Amal”, at the same time the civil war broke out in Lebanon. During Israel’s invasion of southern Lebanon in 1982 – operation “Peace for Galilee”, Nasrallah together with other fighters from “Amal” created their own organization. A little later, with the addition of several other groups, it became “Hezbollah”.
Among Nasrallah’s first missions when he took control of Hezbollah was to avenge Mousavi’s death. It also led military operations against Israel in southern Lebanon, with Israeli troops withdrawing in 2000, one of the group’s biggest victories. However, Nasrallah lost his eldest son Qadi during the fighting in 1997. Then the image of the Hezbollah leader among the population changed because of the speech in which he announced the death of his son. Public opinion then defined him as an “extremely selfless leader” – at that time Nasrallah also visited grieving families who had also lost someone at the front.