With Pride and Honor, Hezbollah Celebrates Martyr’s Day…

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With Pride and Honor, Hezbollah Celebrates Martyr’s Day…

11/11/2010 November 11 is not a usual day at all…

It’s the Martyr’s Day, the day in which Lebanese remember their martyrs as well as the sacrifices they paid along the path of freedom and Resistance…

Year after year, the occasion becomes even more symbolic and profound as an opportunity to remember, pay tribute to those who have drawn our path with their pure blood, and pledge to continue the same path until achieving complete victory…

The day remains an opportunity to recall four of the Resistance great leaders, four commanders whose martyrdoms represented the launching of a new era in the Resistance various stages, the stages that combine all together in one major and essential feature: the love of life!

The whole story began with martyr Ahmad Kassir, the Resistance hero who opened the whole martyrdom legend. With him, a new concept for martyrdom was born, a concept that Resistances in the history were not used to: a young man transforms himself into a detonator targeting the center of the Israeli military governor. Even more, the identity of the martyr was not declared for three full years, while the details of the remarkable operation remained and are still a topic of controversy and disputes within the Israeli intelligence circles.

Kassir’s martyrdom, with its full symbolism, was just the beginning. Indeed, it has pushed all resistance fighters to raise the Resistance flag and vow not to drop it under any circumstances. The ensign, afterwards, has moved from one hand to another, with the hands of the leaders at the front. It was first carried by “the Sheikh of the martyrs of the Islamic Resistance”, Sheikh Ragheb Harb, who was the first martyr among the Resistance founders, followed by Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Abbas Moussawi while returning home after taking part in marking the eighth anniversary of Sheikh Harb’s martyrdom. Minutes before his martyrdom, Sayyed Moussawi addressed the enemy, saying “Kill us; our people will become more and more conscious!”

The martyrs’ blood was never a sign of frustration or collapse. On the contrary, it has always been destined to draw the long path of resistance and jihad. Victories then came one after another, causing to the Israeli enemy the defeats it has never seen before.

… And the year 1997 came to define another stage in the Resistance life. Hadi Hasan Nasrallah, the Resistance leader’s son, joined the procession of martyrs while defending with his brothers in the Islamic Resistance the sovereignty of his country… But Hadi Hasan Nasrallah’s martyrdom had given the resistance movement momentum, allowing it to enter a national framework that set up the outbreak of the Lebanese brigade to fight the occupation.

Last but for sure, not least, top commander Imad Moghniyyeh (Hajj Redwan) joined his brothers and all the Islamic resistance martyrs who made us proud and granted us the defeat of our enemy. Moghniyyeh was martyred on February 12, 2008, after a life full of heroic achievements against the Zionist entity and its agents.

One thing is sure…

The procession of martyrs will continue. Their pure blood will make the complete victory a reality, wiping out the fabricated Israeli enemy.

November 11 will remain a day in which the Resistance heroes and martyrs are recalled, and their sacrifices are valued. Indeed, without its heroes and martyrs, the Resistance would be simply powerless…

Sayyed Nasrallah to Address Recent Developments on Martyr’s Day

11/11/2010 Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is to deliver an important speech on Thursday evening during Martyr’s Day festival, which would include Hezbollah position on the recent political developments in Lebanon.

The festival will take place at six-thirty in the evening, Beirut time (16:30 GMT) in Sayyed Shuhada’a complex in the southern suburbs of Beirut (Dahiyeh)- Ruwais.

Hezbollah also hosts several celebrations on this occasion in the Lebanese regions putting wreaths of flowers at the martyrs’ graves, reading verses of the Quran on their pure souls.

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