He opened a lathe shop to cover up his work, and so the Israeli agents started going to his shop to fix their weapons and machines, without realizing that he was taking information from them.

Martyr Rani Adnan Bazzi

Rani Adnan Bazzi was born on the 23rd of February, 1967 in the Southern village of Bint Jbeil to a rich family that gave great attention to him as a child.

His family moved to Kuwait when he was three months old, and taught him the love of the Prophet and his household since childhood.

Rani loved becoming a mechanical engineer since he was three years old. He used to break up everything that comes to his hands and join it again. His relation with his friends was a good one too, as he was their beloved leader who was very smart and courageous, and had a very strong personality.

The martyr lived in his grandfather’s house in Bint Jbeil while his family was in Kuwait because he had Asthma. He finished the elementary level, but after the civil war intensified in 1977, he went back to Kuwait where he finished the elementary and secondary education.

He continued his university education in Tishreen University in Lattakia - Syria, and that was when he started drawing the path of his new life. At the university, he got introduced to friends who worked in jihad, and so, he chose to take this path focusing his interests on religious and jihadi lectures and readings.

His relation with the mujahedeen of Hezbollah strengthened, and so he started sneaking into Bint Jbeil during the occupation period, to help the resistance fighters.

Rani started undergoing military courses during his university years, and after his graduation, he chose to go to Bint Jbeil rather than returning to his family in Kuwait.

He gave his sister the university certificate so that she takes it to his parents in Kuwait, and resided at his grandfather’s house in Bint Jbeil.

Rani started officially working with Hezbollah in 1992. He opened a lathe shop to cover up his work, and so the Israeli agents started going to his shop to fix their weapons and machines, without realizing that they were dealing with a resistance fighter who used to treat them friendly and respectfully to take information from them.

The people of the village were not aware that Rani worked with the Islamic Resistance and so they thought he was a member of the pro-Israeli Lahad army and avoided him. This was harsh on the martyr, as he was far from his family and a stranger between his neighbors; yet he was patient and satisfied with all the circumstances.

In addition to his work during the day, Rani used to spend his nights either working with the resistance fighters and planting bombs for the Israeli invaders, or performing supererogatory prayers.

His father made great efforts to convince him to return to Kuwait, but Rani strongly rejected the idea; and so, he signed a work contract with the Ministry of Education and started teaching in the training school of Bint Jbeil.

After a period, the Israelis began suspecting Rani’s real job, so they detained him in Al-Khiyam detention camp for investigation, and he stayed there from the 14th of April, 1996, until the 28th of October, 1996.

After that, he went to Kuwait to visit his family which tried hard to convince him to stay, but Rani’s response was always: “If you grant me Kuwait and everything in it, and made me its prince, I would not stay there.”

Rani got married in 1997 and had a baby boy whom he named “Amir”, Arabic for prince.

The Israeli enemy later became confident that Rani was working with the Islamic Resistance, so they arrested him again on the 27th of July, 1999, but soon after that, Rani and all the detainees were freed, as the Islamic Resistance succeeded in defeating the Zionist enemy and forced it out of Lebanon in 2000.

During his detention in Al-Khiyam Rani’s wife gave birth to his 2nd child whom he named “Shaheed”, Arabic for martyr.

After the liberation of 2000, Rani went back to working with the resistance, and was a leader of the mujahedeen who have always loved and appreciated him as a father and a brother who aided them and assisted them in everything they did.

His relation with his neighbors changed after they knew his real work, and so he became their shelter and advisor.

In the battlefield:

After Israel waged its outrageous war against Lebanon in 2006, Rani joined the resistance fighters in the battlefield.

Two days before the war was over, and after most of his group were martyred, Rani took part in confronting an Israeli airdrop, and he was martyred after that.