Beirut airport will close for four hours on Sunday during the funeral of slain Hezbollah leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
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"The airport will be closed, and takeoffs and landings... will halt on February 23, 2025, from 12 p.m. until 4 p.m.," the authority said in a statement carried by official media on Tuesday.
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on Beirut’s southern suburbs on September 27, 2024, as Israel scaled up its campaign against the Iran-backed terror group following almost a year of cross-border attacks.
After decades at the helm of the group once seen as a formidable foe to Israel, the killing of the charismatic leader sent shockwaves across Lebanon and the wider region.
Sunday’s funeral will also be for Hashem Safieddine, a senior Hezbollah figure who had been chosen to succeed Nasrallah before he too was killed in an Israeli strike in October.
The funeral is to begin at 1 p.m. at a sports stadium in Beirut’s southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold.
It will include a speech by current Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem
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and is to be followed by a procession to Nasrallah’s burial site on the outskirts of Beirut.
Saffiedine will be buried in his hometown of Deir Qanun.
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"will participate in this ceremony at a high level," without specifying who would attend.
Qassem over the weekend called for broad participation as a demonstration of the group’s strength.
"We want to transform this funeral into a show of support and an affirmation of (Hezbollah’s) plan and approach, and hold our heads high," Qassem said.
Hezbollah has said 79 countries would be involved in the commemoration, whether at an official or "popular" level.
Earlier this month, in a security alert about the funeral, the US embassy urged its nationals to avoid the area "which includes the airport."
Nasrallah had been temporarily buried elsewhere because of security concerns, Qassem said, and the group had also put off the public funeral for security reasons. Shiite Moslem rites provide for such a temporary burial when circumstances prevent a proper funeral or the dear departed cannot be buried where they wished.
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