Arab News, on Lebanon, 27 September 2026

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Hezbollah chief says Israel unable to ‘break the resistance’

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BEIRUT: Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem said on Sunday that Israel had been unable to break , at a ceremony marking two years since Israel killed the movement’s longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah.

Hezbollah has demonstrated that Israel and its soldiers “were unable to achieve their goals to break the resistance, end its existence, consolidate the Israeli occupation and establish settlements in Lebanon,” Qassem said in an address televised at a gathering in Beirut’s southern suburbs attended by thousands of the group’s supporters.

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BEIRUT: Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem said on Sunday that Israel had been unable to break his Iran-backed group, at a ceremony marking two years since Israel killed the movement’s longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah.

Hezbollah has demonstrated that Israel and its soldiers “were unable to achieve their goals to break the resistance, end its existence, consolidate the Israeli occupation and establish settlements in Lebanon,” Qassem said in an address televised at a gathering in Beirut’s southern suburbs attended by thousands of the group’s supporters.

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What we found (1)

Arab News reports Naim Qassem's speech marking two years since Israel killed Hassan Nasrallah, and it names Israel as the killer in its own voice. Its one lapse is minor: it tags Hezbollah as an 'Iran-backed group' in its own voice, which defines a Lebanese political movement by its foreign sponsor. Nothing else in the short report misleads.

  1. Uses a loaded word

    Minor

    “his Iran-backed group”

    Why this matters
    Arab News adds 'Iran-backed' in its own voice as the defining label for Hezbollah, inside a paraphrase of Qassem's words that he did not use.
    The impression it gives
    A reader comes away seeing Hezbollah first as an Iranian proxy rather than as a Lebanese political and resistance movement.
    The context
    Hezbollah has a place in Lebanese politics and in Lebanon's resistance history. The article gives no attribution for the label and no other detail about the group's ties to Iran, so the modifier works as a default tag rather than a reported fact.

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What it gets right

  • “two years since Israel killed the movement’s longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah”

    Arab News names Israel as the actor in Nasrallah's killing in its own voice, with an active verb, rather than writing 'the death of' as other coverage of the same event did.

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