Nasrallah also reiterated his earlier calls for the destruction of Israel saying " To this enemy we say again: There is no place for you here and there is no life for you among us.

" Nasrallah also criticized France for putting Garaudy on trial.

Nasrallah also came under intense criticism from some in Lebanon.

Nasrallah said that Assad's regime had also " served the Palestinian cause very well ".

* According to Israeli military source Shaul Shay, Nasrallah has often made anti-Semitic statements that not only revile Israel as a state, but also the entire Jewish people, while using themes taken from classic and Muslim antisemitism.

" Glass also wrote that a Hezbollah spokeswoman, Wafa Hoteit, denied that Nasrallah made the statement.

The New York Times, the London Times, and the Independent also reported on the apparent attempt against Nasrallah, and the Israeli military censor complained the reporters from all newspapers involved had violated censorship laws.

Balsan also presented The Gate of Sun ( 2004 ), his second film with Yousry Nasrallah, who adapted the Elias Khoury novel.

His death was followed by a huge turnout in Lebanon, visits by virtually all major political figures across the Lebanese spectrum ( except for Maronite patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir ), and statements of condolence from across the greater Middle East region ( with a notable exception of Egypt ); but it also led to controversy in the west and a denunciation in Israel.

" Nasrallah stated that " in occupied Palestine, there is no difference between a soldier and a civilian, for they are all invaders, occupiers and usurpers of the land.

* In a 2011 televized speech, Nasrallah voiced support for the popular uprisings which took place in countries like Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Bahrain ; he was more outspoken towards the Bahraini issue, expressing strong support for the popular movements, a feat which fueled tensions between Lebanon and Bahrain.

Reconciliation between the Druze and Christian communities came to fruition on August 8, 2001, when the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch, Cardinal Mar Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir made a historic visit to the Chouf and met with Druze leader, Jumblatt.

However, resistance by Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir prevented this, resulting in a temporary fallout between the DLM and opposition.

Rachel Corrie was a US citizen allegedly killed by a bulldozer operated by the Israel Defense Forces ( IDF ) while involved in direct action ( based on the non-violent principles of Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi ) to prevent demolition of the home of local Palestinian pharmacist Samir Nasrallah.

Hasan Nasrallah ( born August 31, 1960 ; ) became the third Secretary General of the Lebanese political and paramilitary organization Hezbollah after Israel assassinated the previous leader, Abbas al-Musawi, in 1992.

* In an interview with The Washington Post, in 2000, Nasrallah said " I am against any reconciliation with Israel.

* In 2006 Nasrallah said " There is no solution to the conflict in this region except with the disappearance of Israel ".

* Despite declaring " death to Israel " in his public appearances, Nasrallah said in an interview to The New Yorker, " At the end of the road no one can go to war on behalf of the Palestinians, even if that one is not in agreement with what the Palestinians agreed on.

* In a television interview with Julian Assange on 17 April 2012, Nasrallah said that Israel “ is and will be an illegal state … It was established on the basis of occupying the lands of others .” He added, “ If I occupy your house by force it doesn't become mine in 50 or 100 years .” While “ Hezbollah does not want to kill anyone ”, the only solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he argued, was to establish a democratic state on Palestinian land where Muslims, Jews and Christians live in peace but that the US “ won't let people listen to Hezbollah .”

** In a 1998 speech marking the Day of Ashura, and published in what was Hasan Nasrallah's official website at that time, Nasrallah referred to Israel as " the state of the grandsons of apes and pigs – the Zionist Jews " and condemned them as " the murderers of the prophets.

* According to the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Robert Satloff, in a speech carried during Ashura on April 9, 2000, Hasan Nasrallah said that: " The Jews invented the legend of the Nazi atrocities.

* Journalist Badih Chayban in an October 23, 2002 article in The Daily Star, wrote that Nasrallah said, " If they Jews all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after  them worldwide.

Two popular songs were written about Nasrallah during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, with vastly different views of the Hezbollah leader: The Hawk of Lebanon in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and Yalla Ya Nasrallah, against Nasrallah, in Israel.

* Nasrallah: Israel temporary country YNET

After several days of Israeli attacks Hezbollah leaader Hassan Nasrallah declared an " open war " with Israel.

Israel was initially unsure who that person might be, until Nasrallah confirmed it was Tannenbaum a few days later.

In a concert in the Lebanese town of Jounieh, Wehbe congratulated Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah for his stand against Israel during the war.

Since the Second Lebanon War, however, Iran has restructured Hezbollah to limit the power of Hassan Nasrallah, and invested billions of dollars " rehabilitating " Hezbollah.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said the government's decision to declare the group's military telecommunications network illegal was a " declaration of war " on the organization, and demanded that the government revoke it.

In a speech in July 2008, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah acknowledged that he had ordered the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers in order to free prisoners held in Israeli jails.

On July 3, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah rejected the indictment and denounced the tribunal as a plot against the party, vowing that the named persons would not be arrested under any circumstances.

Meanwhile, Hezbollah leader Nasrallah called for a " massive popular gathering " on Tuesday against UN Resolution 1559 saying " The resistance will not give up its arms ... because Lebanon needs the resistance to defend it ", and added " all the articles of UN resolution give free services to the Israeli enemy who should have been made accountable for his crimes and now finds that he is being rewarded for his crimes and achieves all its demands ".

* In February 2006, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah described Garaudy as " a great French philosopher.

Nasrallah joined Hezbollah after the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon.

Despite his ongoing commitment to Hezbollah, in 1989 Nasrallah resumed his efforts to become a religious jurist by returning to the Iranian city of Qom to further his studies.

In 1991, Abbas al-Musawi became secretary general of Hezbollah and Nasrallah returned to Lebanon.

Nasrallah became the leader of Hezbollah after the Israelis assassinated the previous leader, Musawi in 1992.

The agreement was described across the Arab world as a magnificent victory for Hezbollah, and Nasrallah was personally praised for achieving these gains.

Following the Nasrallah and Hezbollah great victory, came what is known as the " Green Flood " ( Al-sayl al-akhdhar ), according to Iranian-born journalist Amir Taheri.

In a television interview aired on 17 April 2012 Nasrallah stated that Hezbollah supports Syrian president Bashar al-Assad since Syria had supported resistance in Lebanon and " hasn't backed down in the face of Israeli and American pressure ".

" Charles Glass questions the attribution of the quote to Nasrallah, noting that both the footnote in Saad-Ghorayeb's book and her original dissertation instead attribute the quote to an interview she conducted with a Hezbollah member of the Lebanese Parliament, Muhammad Fneish.

* During the 2006 Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy, Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah declared in a speech aired on Al-Manar TV and Al-Jazeera TV that: " If there had been a Muslim to carry out Imam Khomeini's fatwā against the renegade Salman Rushdie, this rabble who insult our Prophet Mohammed in Denmark, Norway and France would not have dared to do so.

Almalaf, an Iraqi news source on 15, October 2008, quoted sources in Lebanon saying Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah had been poisoned the previous week and that he was saved by Iranian doctors who went to Lebanon to treat him.

Hezbollah denied that Nasrallah had been poisoned.

On October 25, 2008 in an interview with the Hezbollah owned Al-Manar channel, Nasrallah denied the assassination attempt, accusing the Israelis and Americans of fabricating the story and considering it as part of the ongoing psychological war against Hezbollah that aimed to imply that the party was suffering from internal disputes and assassination plots.