The Israeli Army confirmed that it killed Hashem Safieddine, the cleric who was emerging as Hassan Nasrallah‘s successor as head of the Hezbollah group.
The Defense Forces (IDF) claimed that Safieddine was eliminated in an airstrike on Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, earlier this month. There was no immediate confirmation of the terrorist group.
“We can confirm that the head of Hezbollah’s Executive Council, Hashem Safieddine, and the head of Hezbollah’s Intelligence Directorate, Ali Hussein Hazima, were killed along with other Hezbollah commanders in a bombing attack about three weeks ago,” the army said. Israeli in a statement.
Israeli attacks in recent months have wiped out much of Hezbollah’s leadership, leaving the group in chaos.
The Beirut suburb where Safieddine was killed was bombed on Tuesday by a series of new airstrikes. The Israeli army razed a building in Beirut’s Dahiyeh neighborhood that it said housed Hezbollah facilities.
The collapse sent smoke and debris flying into the air a few hundred meters from where a spokesman for the militant group had just briefed reporters about a drone strike that damaged the Israeli prime minister’s home over the weekend.
The airstrike came 40 minutes after Israel issued an evacuation warning for two buildings in the area that it said were used by Hezbollah. Hezbollah’s press conference nearby was disrupted and an Associated Press photographer captured an image of a missile heading toward the building moments before it was destroyed. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
Born in 1964 in the town of Deir Qanun in Nahr, in southern Lebanon, the religious has been well connected since his beginnings with the Hezbollah leadership. and rose rapidly within it since his appointment as a member of the formation’s Shura Council (consultative body) in 1995.
Like most Shiite clerics and senior Hezbollah officials, until 1994 he carried out his Islamic studies with his cousin Nasrallah in the sacred cities of Najaf (Iraq) and Qom (Iran), where the main schools are located for anyone who aspires to become a Grand Ayatollah.
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