Hashem Safieddine will exchange Hassan Nasrallah as head of the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group after the latter was eradicated by Israel in its airstrikes in Beirut. Safieddine is a cousin of Nasrallah, who was the top of the group for 32 years.
Experiences emerged on Saturday claiming that Safieddine had additionally been killed in Israel’s bombing of Lebanon. Nonetheless, Reuters quoted a group supply as saying he was alive.
He bears a bodily resemblance to Nasrallah and joined the group alongside along with his cousin in its early days. Born in 1964 in Deir Qanun al-Nahr in southern Lebanon, Safieddine has been designated as Nasrallah’s successor for the reason that Nineties, when he was known as again to Beirut from Iran, the place he was pursuing his research.
Safieddine, designated a terrorist by the US in 2017, oversees Hezbollah’s political affairs and is a member of the group’s Jihad Council. He additionally has ties to Iran’s regime because the father-in-law of Zeinab Soleimani, daughter of slain Iranian navy normal Qassem Soleimani. That very same yr he was blacklisted by Saudi Arabia for supporting the Syrian regime.
Celebrations broke out in Syria after information of Nasrallah’s demise emerged. The individuals view Hezbollah as an enemy, because the militant group has helped President Bashar al-Assad suppress the Syrian revolution.
As head of the chief council, Safieddine oversees Hezbollah’s political affairs. He’s additionally a part of the Jihad Council, which manages the group’s navy operations. Over the previous 30 years, he has overseen Hezbollah’s civilian operations, together with its schooling system and funds. In the meantime, Nasrallah handled the group’s strategic affairs.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned he had given the order to get rid of Nasrallah, including that his demise grew to become an “important situation” for Israel to realize its conflict targets. He additionally known as Nasrallah’s demise a “historic turning level.”
“Hassan Nasrallah will now not have the ability to terrorize the world,” the Israel Protection Forces (IDF) mentioned.
Particularly, the IDF has claimed to have eradicated one other senior Hezbollah chief. The IDF mentioned Hassan Khalil Yassin, who headed a unit in Hezbollah’s intelligence division that was tasked with finding Israeli navy and civilian websites in Israel for assault, was additionally eradicated.