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Hezbollah has introduced Sheikh Naim Qassem as its new head.
Qassem, whose promotion to deputy chief was introduced Tuesday, replaces Hassan Nasrallah as secretary basic of the Lebanon-based armed group.
Nasralleh was killed in Beirut in late September in an Israeli assault. Many different senior Hezbollah officers have additionally been attacked since Israel turned its consideration to the Lebanese group that month.
In a press release, Hezbollah stated Qassem was chosen to take the place due to his “adherence to Hezbollah’s ideas and goals.”
He added that the group “[ask] Might Almighty God information you on this noble mission of main Hezbollah and its Islamic resistance.”
Qassem, 71, has typically been known as Hezbollah’s “quantity two.” He is among the non secular students who based the group within the early Eighties.
The assassination of Nasrallah, who embodied the Lebanese Shiite motion within the eyes of his supporters and the broader area, was seen as having left a vacuum inside a gaggle that had already had a lot of its management beheaded because of months of Israeli murders.
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