Slain Hezbollah Chief’s Son Says His Father Spent Final Days In Rage

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah’s son said his father was gripped by rage this time last year after Israel detonated pagers worn by his fighters across Lebanon; just days later, Israel assassinated him.

The pager explosions and Nasrallah’s killing in an Israeli air attack on the southern suburbs of Beirut in September 2024 turned out to be the opening salvos of an Israeli assault that killed more than 4,000 people across Lebanon and destroyed swathes of the country’s south.

The war, which Israel said it conducted to end Hezbollah’s cross-border attacks in support of its ally Hamas in Gaza, shook Hezbollah’s hold on power in Lebanon, where the group is now under pressure to give up its arms.

Those developments were unimaginable a year ago when Hezbollah’s then-leader was confronted w