‘End of an era’: Netizens pay tribute to Hezbollah leader ‘who fought for his people’

By Press TV Website Staff

Following the cowardly assassination of Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah by the Israeli regime, social media has been abuzz with statements of condemnation.

Netizens have in unequivocal words slammed the Tel Aviv regime over the foolhardy military adventurism that will only escalate regional tensions and potentially pave the way for an all-out war.

Many paid glowing tributes to the fallen Hezbollah leader’s inspiring leadership and extraordinary bravery in taking on the Israeli occupation and establishing Hezbollah as a force to reckon with.

Vijay Prashad, a prominent author and intellectual, in a post on X, said Nasrallah led the resistance “which will not bend but grow as his memory and example seed a new generation.”

“He fought for his people despite the immense personal cost and was hated by his enemies because he defeated them. I saw him speak in Beirut in 2013, a most impressive man and a brilliant strategic thinker. His loss is a blow to Lebanon, but he has taught two generations how to succeed him.”

Ana Winstanley, an investigative journalist and podcaster with Intifada, also took to X to pay tribute to the leader of the Lebanese resistance movement, hailing him as a “hero.”

“I took the photo below in 2006 in an area of Ramallah (in the occupied West Bank) where a relatively large concentration of Palestinian Christians live. This was after Israel’s failed re-invasion of South Lebanon. I’ll never forget taking this photo, as it was just so emblematic of the widespread popular support that existed —and still exists— for Hezbollah and for Nasrallah as the leader of the Axis of Resistance to the genocidal “Israeli” regime,” he wrote, sharing a photo of Nasrallah.

He said Nasrallah was the liberation leader of Lebanon who freed the entire south Lebanon from 18 years of brutal Israeli occupation in 2000.

“He defeated Israel once again in 2006. After 2011 he foiled the CIA/al-Qaida/ISIS plot to destroy Syria as a state. He joined the most recent war for the defense of Gaza on 8 October 2023. He died as he lived: resisting Zionist oppression to his last breath,” Winstanley wrote.

“The movement will continue to fight Israel and has proven resilient in the past when its previous leaders and senior figures were also murdered by “Israel” — including Nasrallah’s predecessor Abbas al-Musawi. Nonetheless, there’s no doubt this is the end of an era for Hezbollah, for Lebanon, for Palestine, for the Axis of Resistance, and for the world.”

Lebanese journalist and podcaster Rania Khalek rapped US officials for “outrageously equating Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah to Osama bin Laden.”

“I want to remind everyone of his condemnation of the Sept 11 attacks on the World Trade Center buildings. Also, a reminder that Nasrallah played a leading role in the fight against Al Qaeda across the region after 2011, while the US and Israel were backing Al Qaeda against their regional adversaries,” Khalek wrote.

“If anyone can be compared to Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda, it is the Israeli and US leadership who are currently terrorizing the people of the region.”

An X user Kahlisse referred to the incredible popularity of the Hezbollah leader in Palestine.

“Mosques in Jenin, the West Bank mourn the death of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah In Ramallah, students at Birzeit University poster photos of the leader,” she wrote.

“Israel has managed to unite people across the world - united against Israeli terrorism.”

Tim Anderson, an Australian commentator, cited a speech delivered by Nasrallah in 1992 after the assassination of his predecessor Sayyed Abbas Musawi.

“By murdering our secretary-general, Sayyed Abbas Mussawi, they sought to kill our spirit of resistance and destroy our will for jihad. But his blood will continue to simmer in our veins, only strengthening our determination to move forward and intensifying our enthusiasm to pursue the path,” Nasrallah said at the time.

“America will remain the primary enemy of this nation and the greatest Satan of all. Israel will forever be, in our eyes, a cancerous growth that must be eradicated, an artificial entity that should be removed, even if all the rulers of the world recognize it. Palestine—all of Palestine—will remain part of this nation, and we shall not relinquish a single grain of its sand."

Irish journalist and filmmaker Sean Murray took to X to hail the martyred Hezbollah leader.

“As history has often taught us, there will be thousands to take Hassan Nasrallah’s place. There will be no peace in the Middle East without the return of Palestinians to their historic homeland. The destruction of apartheid Israel is the only thing that will bring peace,” he wrote.

US-based journalist Sana Saeed quoted from Nasrallah’s old speech, which demonstrated his fearlessness in facing the enemy: “We don’t lose. When we win, we win. When we are martyred, we win.” –

“The murderous psychosis that grips Israel & the U.S. fails to understand who it is they are fighting & slaughtering in Palestine, in Lebanon. They will not win,” Saeed wrote.

American journalist Sam Husseini said the assassination of Nasrallah “will likely be a turning point.”

“The Shia of Lebanon, the poorest group of a tiny Arab country produced Hezbollah which has challenged Israel as Egypt, Jordan and the Gulf states sold out. His speeches, rigorous but full of wit, were listened to like nothing else and transcended sect,” wrote Husseini.

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