When and where will Hassan Nasrallah’s funeral be held?

 Hezbollah has announced that the funeral of its longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah will be held on February 23 in Lebanon.

He will be buried on the outskirts of Beirut “in a plot of land between the old and new airport roads, the Hezbollah said in a statement.

Nasrallah was martyred on Sept. 27 after a series of Israeli airstrikes struck several buildings in a southern Beirut suburb. A top security aide said Nasrallah was inside the militant group’s war operations room when the strikes took place.

As per Al Jazeera News, Nasrallah, successor Naim Qassem said in a televised address that Nasrallah was martyred “at a time when circumstances were difficult”, forcing the group to conduct a temporary burial for him according to religious tradition.

Qassem said the group had now decided to hold “a grand funeral procession with a large public presence” for both Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine, another top Hezbollah official martyred in an Israeli strike nearly a week after Nasrallah.

He also confirmed for the first time that Safieddine had been elected as Nasrallah’s successor but was martyred before the announcement was made. He said Safieddine would also be buried with the title of secretary general.

Nasrallah will be buried on the outskirts of Beirut “in a plot of land we chose between the old and new airport roads”, while Safieddine will be buried in his hometown of Deir Qanoun in southern Lebanon, he said.

Hezbollah announced on October 29 that Qassem, the group’s deputy leader, had been elected as its head after the killings of many of the group’s top military commanders threw the group into disarray.

A ceasefire agreed in late November ended hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel and set a 60-day deadline for Israeli troops to withdraw from southern Lebanon, Hezbollah to remove its fighters and arms from the area, and Lebanese troops to deploy there.

That deadline was extended last month until February 18. Israel has been accused of violating the terms of the ceasefire by refusing to leave Lebanon and continuing to carry out occasional air attacks in some parts of the country. Israel itself accuses Hezbollah of violating the terms of the ceasefire.