Hezbollah chief says slain predecessor Nasrallah to be buried February 23

Hezbollah's current chief Naim Qassem announced the funeral date in a televised speech, The Times of Israel reported.

"After security conditions prevented holding a funeral" during two months of all-out war that ended with a ceasefire deal reached on November 27, Hezbollah has decided to hold "on February 23 a grand... public funeral," he said. "We hope that it will be a grand funeral procession befitting this great personality," Qassem added.

In a video message in October last year, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed the death of Nasrallah. "We've degraded Hezbollah's capabilities. We took out thousands of terrorists, including Nasrallah himself and Nasrallah's replacement, and the replacement of the replacement," Netanyahu said.