Hezbollah and Nasrallah's son deny reports on secretary-general's health

An informed Hezbollah source on Monday denied in remarks to Iran’s state news agency IRNA the “rumors” published by some Israeli and Arab media outlets about the health of Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

Nasrallah is in “full health and is recovering after having been infected with the flu virus,” the source said.

“The flu infection caused him voice problems and made it difficult for him to deliver the speech that had been scheduled for last Friday,” the source added, stressing that Nasrallah will deliver an address on Tuesday to mark the third anniversary of the assassination of Qasem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.

Nasrallah’s son Jawad also dismissed the reports as “lies,” tweeting on Sunday evening that he had spoken to his father “half an hour ago.”

He was commenting on an Israeli media report that said that “Nasrallah is in a critical health situation, and according to reports he is infected with either the flu or coronavirus.”

“He is unconscious and on ventilators,” the report claimed.

And citing “reports from Lebanon and Saudi Arabia,” Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Post reported that Nasrallah had been “rushed to intensive care after suffering a stroke.”

The daily reported a tweet by Saudi journalist Hussein al-Gawi, who claimed that Nasrallah suffered “a second stroke” and was being hospitalized at the Great Prophet Hospital south of Beirut.

Nasrallah is 62 years old and rumors and reports about his health and physical condition are not new.