Jerusalem, Feb. 2 -- Hezbollah has announced that the funeral of its slain former chief, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in September of last year, will take place on February 23, as reported by The Times of Israel.

Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut on September 23.

Hezbollah's current chief Naim Qassem announced the funeral date in a televised speech, The Times of Israel reported.

"After security conditions prevented holding a funeral" during two months of all-out war that ended with a ceasefire deal reached on November 27, Hezbollah has decided to hold "on February 23 a grand... public funeral," he said. "We hope that it will be a grand funeral procession befitting this great perso...