13/02/2008 Another martyr joins today the procession of resistance leaders, fighters and heroes who drew our path with their pure blood so that the road to God remains clear, evident, and brilliant.
 
"Those martyrs presented the good example, achieved liberation, and are still defending the country and supporting the resistance in Palestine. They are still raising the banner, the ensign, the flag that we vowed together not to drop. The flag will never fall. On the contrary, it will pass from one shoulder to another and from one hand to another until it is raised up high over our mountain tops and over the dome of our beloved 'Aqsa' and until our Lebanese, Palestinian, Arab, and Islamic lands are free from occupation," Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah said during the funeral of martyr Ghaleb Awali on July 19, 2004.
 
The ensign that is moving from one hand to another was first carried by "the sheikh of the martyrs of the Islamic Resistance" Sheikh Ragheb Harb who once said: "A position is a weapon and a hand shake is acknowledgment", referring to the acknowledgment of Israel. His positions prompted the Israelis to detain him, what sparked an uprising across south Lebanon to demand his release. Israel couldn't quiet him so it found no other solution than to kill him on February 16, 1984. Israel thought that, by killing Sheikh Harb, it will execute its plane more smoothely. However, his blood was destined to draw the path of resistance and jihad.
 
A few years later, Lebanon witnessed another Israeli assassination of a resistance figure. This time, it was Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Abbas Moussawi. He was returning home after taking part in marking the eighth anniversary of Sheikh Harb's martyrdom when his car was hit by rockets launched from Israeli warplanes causing his death, his wife's and thier son Hussein. Sayyed Mussawi's fundamental will was: "Preserve the resistance."
 
Once again, a leader's martyrdom had given the resistance movement momentum. Eleven years later, the Israeli occupation targeted a key resistance figure, Abu Ali Rida Yassin. The now strong resistance retaliated and bombed Zionist. Israel backed for eight years, when Said Harb, another resistance commander, fell martyr. At that same day, resistance fighters carried out two military operations against Israeli posts and shelled Zionist settlements with 'Katyosha' rockets.
 
Still, the procession of martyrs never stoped, as it’s not meant to stop before complete victory. On August 1999, resistance commander Ali Hasan Dib, known as Abu Hasan Salame, was targeted by a bomb explosion on the 'Abra-Hilaliye' road in southern Lebanon. Collaborator Mahmoud Rafeh had played a significant role in his assassination. Rafeh is under arrest and awaits trial and perhaps gallows. He was also involved in the assassination of resistance commander Ali Hussein Saleh in the  Kafa'at region in the southern suburb of Beirut on August 2003.
 
11 months have passed before another resistance figure joined the procession. Ghaleb Mohamed Awali was assassinated when a bomb planted in his car exploded in the 'Moawwad' region in the southern suburb of Beirut.
 
Last but for sure, not least, top commander Imad Moghniyyeh joined his brothers and all the Islamic resistance martyrs who made us proud and rendered our enemy defeated.
 
And the procession of martyrs continues…