[속보] Israel Defense: “Hezbollah proxy appears to have been eliminated” – Mael Business Newspaper

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced on the 8th (local time) that Hashim Safieddin, who was announced as the next leader of the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, is likely dead.

According to the Times of Israel and Haaretz, Minister Gallant visited the Northern Command of the Israeli Army on this day and said, “Hezbollah is a group without a leader,” and “Nasrallah has been ousted and is his successor seems to have been fired as well. “

He emphasized, “After one year of war, Hamas has become a disbanded group and Hezbollah has become a wounded group,” and added, “When the smoke cleared in Lebanon, Iran will realize that it has lost its greatest asset.”

On the 27th of last month, the Israeli military, which is on the offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon, carried out a targeted airstrike in the Dahiyeh area on the outskirts of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, killing the Secretary General of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah.

Afterwards, there was speculation that Safieddin, Nasrallah’s cousin and chairman of Hezbollah’s executive committee, was likely to follow, but Safieddin was reported to have lost contact following an additional airstrike by the Israeli military on the 3rd of the month this.

Hezbollah has never officially named Safieddin as the group’s leader (Secretary-General).

Before what Minister Gallant said on this day, the second leader of Hezbollah, Naim Kasem, said about the death of Hassan Nasrallah, “It is difficult to choose a new secretary-general because of the war,” and “We will say this. once the election is complete.”