News - Middle East: Thousands of Lebanese people have gathered at the site of an Israeli strike that assassinated Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah to pay tribute to the late leader of the Hezbollah resistance movement.

The memorial ceremony, titled Light from Light, took place on Saturday night around the edges of the crater left behind by Israel's terrorist attack in Beirut’s southern suburbs of Dahiyeh.

The participants, many in tears, held Hezbollah flags, candles, and pictures of the martyred Hezbollah chief while chanting “At your service, Nasrallah.”

Loudspeakers also played speeches by the prominent resistance leader and red lights lit up the area, which had been opened for the first time for a public memorial.

“For these two and half months we have refused to believe that he is really gone,” said 31-year-old Narjis Khshaish. “We have all just been waiting to reach this place to receive his blessings.”

Moussa Dirani, another participant at Saturday's event, said that "the resistance does not stop with Nasrallah, his death gives us the power to continue along his path.”

Israel launched its bloody acts of terror and aggression across the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, killing close to 45,000 Palestinians to date. 

In a show of solidarity with the people of Gaza, Hezbollah established a support front against the Israeli regime on October 8 of the previous year.

Tensions between Hezbollah and Israel have intensified since mid-September, further escalating the ongoing conflict.

On September 27, the criminal regime assassinated Nasrallah using American-supplied bunker-buster bombs.

It led Hezbollah to intensify its retaliatory operations against  Israeli targets in the occupied territories. 

A few days ago, Israel was forced to accept a ceasefire with Hezbollah after suffering heavy losses following more than 14 months of fighting and failing to achieve its goals in its aggression on Lebanon. The truce was widely hailed as a victory for the Lebanese resistance group.

The people who commemorated Nasrallah were those "who have lost their homes, lost their siblings, lost their families, lost their livelihoods, lost their mothers, and lost their brothers," Lebanon's al-Mayadeen television network reported.

"These are the people whom the enemy expected to break. Today, they stand at the site of the martyrdom of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah to say to him: ... We came with victory once again, and again, and again."

 Source: Press TV