Hassan Nasrallah (in Arabic: حسن نصرالله; born 30 August 1960) is the leader of the Islamist party in Lebanon called Hezbollah.[1][2][3]He is also a Shi'a Muslim cleric.[4] He is widely credited in Lebanon and the Arab world for expelling Israel from Lebanon in the year 2000 and for the prisoners exchange deals that saw many Lebanese and Palestinians getting freed.[5][6] Some countries, like the United States and Britain, consider him to be a terrorist due to his attacks on Israel.[7][8]
Hassan Nasrallah was born in Bourj Hammoud, east Beirut. He was among ten children in his family. He went to Al Najah school, and then a public school in Sin el-Fil, Beirut. The civil war in 1975 caused his family to move to their old home in Bassouriyeh.[9] There, he finished his secondary education at the public school in Tyre. He then joined the Amal Movement, a militant group that represents the Shi'a Muslims in Lebanon. He used to organize the local religious youth into a study group at the village’s Islamic library. Soon he was made the representative of Amal movement in his village at just the age of 15.[1]