Marking Two Years Since Israel Eliminated Hezbollah Terror Chief Hassan Nasrallah

Marking Two Years Since Israel Eliminated Hezbollah Terror Chief Hassan Nasrallah

As Hezbollah marks two years since the Israeli airstrike that killed its terror chief, Hassan Nasrallah, the Iranian proxy has been reduced to a fraction of its former strength as the world’s most heavily armed terror group.

“Thousands of Hezbollah supporters gathered Sunday at the mausoleum of former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah near the airport road in Beirut’s southern suburbs to commemorate the deaths of Nasrallah and his successor, Hashem Safieddine,” Lebanese newspaper L’Orient–Le Jour reported.

On social media, Hezbollah supporters in Beirut were seen waving the terror group’s flags and banners remembering the slain terrorist. “Among the crowd, a banner reading “We miss you” alongside an image of the former leader was displayed, according to photos taken by our photojournalist Mohammad Yassine, who was on site. Some participants waved the party’s yellow flags and the Lebanese flag, while others held portraits of Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine,” the daily added.

Iran-backed militias in Iraq also marked the day. “Shiite supporters also gathered in Baghdad, Iraq, where participants held portraits of Nasrallah to mark two years since his killing,” Israel’s Ynetnews reported.

The main ceremony marking two years since the elimination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine has begun at Nasrallah's tomb complex in Beirut's southern suburbs. pic.twitter.com/ngvuvf94YT

— Ariel Oseran أريئل أوسيران (@ariel_oseran) September 27, 2026

Bracing for the October 27 Israeli election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu marked the second anniversary by posting a short campaign ad on X, highlighting the 2024 pager operation and Nasrallah’s elimination. “Two years ago today, we took out Nasrallah. Happy holiday to the people of Israel!” he wrote, referring to the Jewish holiday season.

היום לפני שנתיים חיסלנו את נסראללה. חג שמח לעם ישראל! 🇮🇱 pic.twitter.com/sCKoCUxIAN

— Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) September 27, 2026

Hezbollah’s central command was decimated on September 27, 2024, when an Israeli air raid deployed dozens of bunker-buster munitions against an underground complex in southern Beirut, killing Nasrallah alongside senior Hezbollah leadership. According to The New York Times, “as many as 80 Israeli bunker-busting bombs struck a secret underground Hezbollah complex in Beirut’s southern suburbs, killing Nasrallah and several of his terror commanders.” Nasrallah’s likely successor, Hashem Safieddine, was also eliminated in the subsequent strikes.

In his latest report for The Jerusalem Post, Avi Ashkenazi describes the Israeli aerial operation:

On September 27, 2024, Nasrallah made one final choice. According to people intimately familiar with his routine and the security arrangements around him, he had safer places he could have gone that day. Nevertheless, he descended into an underground compound in Beirut’s Dahiyeh neighborhood, beneath a multi-story residential building.

Soon after, the aircraft arrived.

“In the Nasrallah assassination, we dropped 83 bombs,” said Col. (res.) S., who managed the IDF’s target bank in the Air Force’s Nahalat Binyamin unit. According to him, a similar level of firepower was later used against Hashem Safieddine, who had been marked as Nasrallah’s successor.

The seconds during which the bombs were dropped ended the life of the man who had shaped Hezbollah and its place within the Iranian axis for decades. In a sense, however, the process of disintegration had begun earlier. Two years later, the organization is still trying to fill the vacuum he left behind.

On the second anniversary of Hassan Nasrallah's killing, al-Manar released rare footage of the secretary-general traveling in public. For years Nasrallah refrained from appearing in public, likely due to security concerns.

In the end, it did not matter. The Israelis found him. pic.twitter.com/QhPjouFEPc

— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) September 27, 2026

Having co-founded Hezbollah with generous military and financial support from Iran’s Islamic Guard (IRGC) in the early 1980s, Nasrallah became its “secretary-general” in 1992 after an Israeli airstrike killed the group’s previous leader, Abbas al-Musawi. Doing Iran’s bidding, Nasrallah drew Lebanon into war by launching a campaign of rocket and drone attacks against Israel on October 8, 2023, immediately following the Hamas massacre.

Two years after Nasrallah’s elimination, Hezbollah’s military and terrorist capabilities have been drastically hollowed out. Nasrallah’s replacement, 73-year-old Naim Qassem, has failed to galvanize the support base or rebuild the terrorist organization.

In addition to eliminating Nasrallah, Israeli airstrikes wiped out most of Hezbollah’s pre-war command structure. In early October 2024, the IDF launched a ground operation, effectively clearing Hezbollah from its strongholds along the southern border.

When the Israeli military encircled and subsequently blew up its underground headquarters in southern Lebanon in early September, the terrorist group abandoned its jihadist fighters and their Iranian instructors, despite vowing to come to their rescue. Following the military operation, IDF spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin observed that “Despite Hezbollah’s declaration that it would defend the infrastructure at any cost, it failed and even abandoned its personnel to die inside.”

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