The Lebanese group “Hezbollah” announced today that Naim Qassem, the former number two in the hierarchy of the pro-Iranian group, will succeed its leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli strike from a month ago, said AFP, quoted by BTA. .
“The Shura (Hezbollah’s ruling council) has decided to elect Sheikh Naim Qassem as Secretary General of Hezbollah,” the Shiite Islamist group at war with Israel said in a statement.
Hassan Nasrallah was killed on September 27 in an Israeli airstrike on the south bank of Beirut which is believed to be a stronghold of Hezbollah. His deputy, Hashem Saffiedin, was killed in another Israeli strike in early October. His death was confirmed last week by Hezbollah. Several other leaders of the group were also killed.
Seventy-year-old Naim Kassem helped found Hezbollah in 1982. In 1991, he became the movement’s deputy secretary general, a year after the supposed settlement agreements Lebanon after the civil war (1975-1990)
After Hassan Nasrallah’s death, Naim Qassem gave three televised speeches, the last of which was on October 15. In his latest statement, he said a “ceasefire” was the “solution” that would allow the return of northern Israelis who had been displaced by the Hezbollah shell over the past year, threat if he does not strike “everywhere” in Israel.
Since September 23, Israel has been carrying out massive airstrikes in Lebanon, targeting specific locations believed to be Hezbollah strongholds. The Jewish state says that through this campaign of airstrikes, it wants to end the shelling from Lebanon on the northern part of its borders and allow residents to return to their homes there. the north of Israel.
More than 1,700 people have died in Lebanon since September 23, according to an AFP tally based on data from Lebanon’s health ministry.
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