Said the group, months after he died in an Israeli air raid in Lebanon’s capital.
Nasrallah was killed on September 27, with Israel intensifying its air attacks on Hezbollah targets in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
In a television address on Sunday, his successor, Naim Qassem, said that Nasrallah had been killed “at a time when conditions were difficult,” forcing the group to temporarily bury him in accordance with religious rituals.
Qassem said it was now time to conduct “a grand procession with a massive public presence” for both Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine, also a senior Hezbollah official, who died almost a week later in an Israeli strike.
He also confirmed for the first time that Safieddine had been elected Nasrallah’s successor, although he was killed shortly before the announcement was made. He indicated that Safieddine would also be buried as secretary-general.
“I will bury Nasrallah on the northern outskirts of Beirut ‘in a plot of land we chose between the old and new airport roads,’ while Safieddine will be buried in the Deir Qanoun, his hometown, in southern Lebanon,” he said.
Hezbollah announced on October 29 that Qassem had been elected the new head of the group in the wake of the deaths of several of its top military commanders, which put the group in turmoil.