Hezbollah: Safi al-Din is DEAD

Baghdad - INA

The Islamic Resistance, Hezbollah, announced today, Wednesday, the martyrdom of Sayyed Hashem Safi al-Din in a Zionist raid.

The party said in a statement followed by the Iraqi News Agency (INA): "We mourn to the nation of martyrs and mujahideen, the nation of resistance and victory, a great leader and a great martyr on the path to Jerusalem, the head of the Executive Council in Hezbollah, Sayyed Hashem Safi al-Din, who departed to his Lord with the best of his mujahideen brothers, satisfied, content, patient and rewarded, in a criminal, aggressive Zionist raid."

He continued added, "Sayyed Hashem Safi al-Din spent most of his life serving Hezbollah, the Islamic Resistance and its society. Over the long years of his honorable life, he responsibly and competently managed the Executive Council, its various institutions and units operating in various fields, and everything related to the work of the resistance, close to its fighters, close to its audience, and loving the families of its martyrs until God granted him the dignity of a martyr in the convoy of martyrs of the luminous Karbala."

He continued, "We offer our condolences to the Master of the Age and Time, to His Eminence the Guardian of the Muslims, to the blessed religious seminaries across the Islamic world, to his brothers the fighters in the Islamic Resistance, and to his honorable, patient and steadfast family."

He added, "We pledge to our great martyr and his brothers the martyrs to continue the path of resistance and jihad until achieving its goals of freedom and victory."