BEIRUT:Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah made a rare public appearance on Monday to address an anti-US rally in southern Beirut attended by thousands of protesters who took to the streets to denounce a film mocking Islam.
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Hezbollah chief makes rare public show at Beirut rally
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah made a rare public appearance on Monday to address an anti-US rally
- AFP
- Published: 19:42 September 17, 2012
- Image Credit: AFP
- An image grab taken from Lebanon's Hezbollah-run Manar TV shows Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah waving to crowds as he makes a rare appearance to deliver a speech during a rally denouncing a low-budget US-made film mocking Islam and the Prophet Mohammed in southern Beirut on September 17, 2012.
It was his fifth public appearance in six years, and the first time he made a full speech in person to thousands of his supporters since 2008. Nasrallah has been in hiding since 2006, when his Lebanese Shiite movement and Israel fought a bloody 33-day war.
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