Israel’s army introduced Tuesday that it killed the cleric anticipated to succeed Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in an airstrike on Beirut three weeks in the past, focusing on the group’s commanders.
Hezbollah has not issued a press release concerning the Israeli claims to have killed Hashem Safieddine.
“It can now be confirmed that in an attack approximately three weeks ago, Hashem Safieddine, the head of Hezbollah’s Executive Council, and Ali Hussein Hazima, the head of Hezbollah’s Intelligence Directorate, were killed along with other Hezbollah commanders,” the Israeli military mentioned in a press release Tuesday.
The military mentioned the air power had hit Hezbollah’s major intelligence headquarters within the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, Hezbollah’s stronghold within the Lebanese capital and that greater than 25 Hezbollah members had been current on the time.
Longtime Hezbollah chief Nasrallah was killed on Sept. 27 in an Israeli airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburbs.
Safieddine, tipped to succeed his distant cousin as chief of the Lebanon-based group, had been out of contact since Israeli strikes on Beirut weeks in the past, a high-level Hezbollah supply mentioned on the time.
“We have reached Nasrallah, his replacement and most of Hezbollah’s senior leadership,” Israeli military chief Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi mentioned in a press release after the affirmation of Safieddine’s demise.
After almost a yr of a genocidal conflict on Gaza, Israel shifted its focus to Lebanon in late September, vowing to safe its northern border threatened by cross-border hearth from Hamas’s Lebanese ally.
Israel ramped up its airstrikes on Hezbollah strongholds across the nation and despatched in floor troops late final month, in a conflict that has killed at the least 1,552 folks since Sept. 23, in line with the Lebanese Health Ministry.
Source: www.dailysabah.com