Hezbollah senior official Wafiq Safa, who served as liaison between the military and political wings, said in a new interview that the late Hassan Nasrallah was deeply shaken by the pager attack in September 2024. Safa claimed Nasrallah stopped eating and barely drank afterward, asserting he would have 'died of grief' even if not killed in an Israeli strike.
Hezbollah's Wafiq Safa — a senior figure who served as the liaison between the group's military and political wings — gave a rare retrospective interview in which he described the psychological impact of the September 2024 pager attack on the late Hassan Nasrallah. Safa said Nasrallah could not bear the sight of the wounded from the attack, stopped eating, barely drank, and would have "died of grief" had he not been killed in a subsequent Israeli strike. The interview offers a first-hand Hezbollah insider account of the group's internal state after one of the most devastating intelligence operations against it in years. The pager attack, widely attributed to Israel, targeted thousands of Hezbollah operatives and caused widespread casualties and disarray. The account is a single-source claim from a Hezbollah official and remains unverified by independent sources.
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