Likely Hezbollah successor Hashem Safieddine ‘killed’, says Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant
The likely successor of Hassan Nasrallah, the assassinated leader of terrorist group Hezbollah, is likely to have been killed by the IDF in an airstrike last week.
The likely successor of Hassan Nasrallah, the assassinated leader of terrorist group Hezbollah, is likely to have been killed by the IDF in an airstrike last week.
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said on Tuesday senior Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine has “probably” been eliminated in the strike on Beirut last Thursday.
Safieddine was the target of the strikes as he was reportedly set to succeed Nasrallah as head of the Lebanese militant group.
He is the cousin of eliminated Hezbollah leader Nasrallah, who was killed by Israeli bombs on September 27.
“Hezbollah is an organisation without a leader, Nasrallah was eliminated, his replacement was probably also eliminated, this thing has a dramatic effect on everything that happens,” Mr Gallant said on Tuesday afternoon.
“There is no one to make decisions, no one to act,” he said during a visit to the IDF Northern Command.
“The actions we are taking are observed all over the Middle East, when the smoke in Lebanon clears, in Iran they will realise that they have lost their most valuable asset, which is Hezbollah.”
Safieddine is head of the Hezbollah’s executive council. The US listed him as a terrorist in 2017.
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