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Who is Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah - and why does he matter?
28 September 2024 17:17 BST
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, one of the most powerful Arab figures in the Middle East, has left a lasting mark on modern Lebanon, the Arab-Israel conflict and the wider region.
He was killed aged 64 in a series of powerful Israeli air strikes in south Beirut on 27 September.
Under Nasrallah, whose surname translates as "victory through God", Hezbollah has grown from a local armed movement to the largest political party in Lebanon’s recent history.
In the 2018 parliamentary elections, Hezbollah won more than 340,000 preferential votes, the most for any party in Lebanon since independence.
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