Najm Al-Hashim – Call of the Nation
It was not known that Sheikh Naim Qassem, Secretary-General of Hezbollah, was a fighter or held military or security responsibilities there. Moreover, there is no information that his children participated in the fighting that the “party” has waged since its beginnings in 1982, nor that they assumed military, or even political, responsibilities in the many structures of the “party,” and that they were among the hundred thousand fighters that the former Secretary-General of the Party, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, once spoke about.
More than ten thousand Hezbollah leaders and members were killed in the many battles in which it engaged. Before the year 2000, the “party” did not engage in close battles and direct military confrontations, other than the operations it carried out in small groups against specific targets within the border strip, or on sites on the lines of contact. Even in the July 1993 war and the April 1996 war, there were no clashes with the Israeli army and the “South Lebanon Army.” Rather, the confrontation was an expression of mutual bombing operations from afar. After the Israeli army withdrew from the south on May 25, 2000, the “party” relaxed militarily and moved towards strengthening its security presence, building its military capabilities, and preparing for a future war, by increasing its missile capabilities, digging tunnels, manufacturing drones, collecting information, and obtaining weapons and anti-armor missiles. All of these preparations appeared in the July 2006 war, in which the party suffered many losses, but they remained limited because the battle remained limited and ended within 30 days with the “party” accepting Resolution 1701, which stipulated that the Lebanese state restore its sovereignty over its entire territory, send about ten thousand soldiers from the Lebanese army to the south, and strengthen the international forces so that their number also became about ten thousand.
We do not save our children for the future
But the major losses began in the largest confrontations on the Syrian scene. After Hezbollah threw its forces into this war, its Secretary-General, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, announced that he would continue to fight there even if he was personally forced to go and participate in the war. Of course, he did not actually mean that, but he wanted to urge the Shiite community to participate effectively in this war and bear its heavy costs willingly.
Nasrallah had lost his son Hadi on September 13, 1997, during his participation with a group of “Hezbollah” in carrying out a military operation in Jabal al-Rafi’ in Iqlim al-Tuffah in the south. Today, Israel is trying, in new battles, to regain control over all of this region if the war continues and does not adhere to the Iranian-American understanding. On that day, Sayyed Nasrallah announced: “I thank God for His great blessing in looking graciously at my family, choosing a martyr from it, and accepting me and my family as members of the blessed and holy gathering of the families of the martyrs. When I visited them, I was ashamed before the father of the martyr, the mother of the martyr, and the wife of the martyr, and I will continue to be ashamed before them. We are not a movement or a resistance whose leaders want to live their own lives and fight you with loyal children, followers, and good, honest supporters.” From the general public, the testimony of the martyr Hadi is a sign that we in “Hezbollah” do not save our children for the future. We are proud of our children when they go to the front lines, and we raise our heads with our children when they fall as martyrs.”
Sheikh Naeem is not Mr. Hassan
After Hadi, Nasrallah’s other sons did not go to war, and none of the three, Muhammad Jawad, Muhammad Ali, and Muhammad Mahdi, fell on the battlefields. Like them, it did not appear that Sheikh Naeem Qassem was ready to thank God for “the blessing of one of his sons being a martyr,” and he did not implement Nasrallah’s statement that they in the party “do not save their children for the future and are proud of them when they go to the front lines and fall as martyrs.” Does Sheikh Naeem want to save his children for the future?
The information circulating about Sheikh Naim is that he was born in 1953, from the town of Kafr Fela in southern Lebanon. He is married and has six children, four boys and two girls. He obtained the higher levels of seminary studies at the hands of the leading scholars in Lebanon. His religious studies coincided with his academic studies, since he joined the Lebanese University in 1970. He obtained a “Bachelor’s” and proficiency in chemistry in French from the Faculty of Education at the Lebanese University, and simultaneously with assuming religious party duties, he began working as a chemistry teacher. Even his children have no information about the roles or responsibilities they assumed in Hezbollah. Some information indicates that they work in the management of some private schools that they are said to own.
From the age of 16 to the age of 70
Talk about Sheikh Naeem’s children not participating in the fighting is not limited to the war that the “party” started to support the “Hamas” movement in Gaza since October 8, 2023, in which it is also said that the “party” lost thousands of members and is still losing. Since the “party” began sending its fighters to Syria, no participation of Sheikh Naeem’s sons in this war was revealed, in which the “party” suffered about five thousand fighters and ten thousand wounded, according to statistics from various sources, without any similar statistics issued by the “party.” In the last war that has been going on for three years as well, it did not appear that Sheikh Naeem’s children were participating in the fighting, while the social networking pages that revolve around the “party” and its environment are filled with thousands of pictures and information about “the happy people who rise to meet the owner of the era and time and Imam Hussein, the master of the martyrs.” There are families that lost more than one of their sons in the war, which exhausted the “party” and forced it to seek help from untrained elements and whomever it had access to who could participate in the fighting. Therefore, it can be noted that among those being mourned there are those who are sixty or seventy years old, or even 16 or 17 years old.
When Sheikh Naim assumed the General Secretariat of Hezbollah, he talked about the issue of his combat and military experience, without talking about his participation in any confrontation or his carrying of arms as a fighter. As if he was aware that it was his weak point, he narrated how, through his participation in leadership meetings, he was informed of the courses of military action, and that the role of the commander was to adopt what the military and security officials suggested to him and give approval for implementation. Former MP Nawaf Al-Moussawi tried to cover this aspect of Sheikh Naeem’s biography when he talked about how he was participating in military actions. It was noteworthy that, after a period of taking over the General Secretariat, the “party” media distributed videos of him wearing military clothing and inspecting some military sites.
Who are Mr. Hassan’s children?
On October 7, 2025, almost a year after he assumed the General Secretariat, Sheikh Naim said: “Hezbollah fought the battle of the ‘powerful’ and it was a very difficult and complex battle. We have not experienced in forty-odd years such great pressure and this great danger, but we emerged from this battle with strength, determination, steadfastness and continuity, and we are continuing, God Almighty willing. The sons of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah are heroic mujahideen, and the families are… The martyrs and all the leaders who continued our contributions, our work, and our lives will remain in the field, and will not enable Israel to achieve its goals…”
But who are the sons of Sayyed Hassan that Sheikh Naeem spoke about? How long will he stay in the field?
On May 28, 2026, on the occasion of Eid al-Adha, a statement by the Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc stated: “Eid al-Adha this year comes in the wake of the Zionist aggression against Lebanon and Palestine, where the true meanings of sacrifice for the sake of God are embodied, and the highest meaning of this Eid is in responding to the divine mandate, even if it requires sacrificing one’s children…” The statement spoke of a divine mandate and the sacrifice of sons, but it did not mention any sons. The children of all people, including the children of all party leaders, implicitly? Does the divine mandate include people and exclude others? Who among the “party” leaders who threaten and threaten has sent his children to fight?
