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Hezbollah confirms Hashem Safieddine martyred in Israeli attack
Hezbollah on Wednesday confirmed the martyrdom of Hashem Safieddine, the top Hezbollah official widely expected to succeed martyred secretary general Hasssan Nasrallah, in an Israeli attack.
Hezbollah confirmed that Safieddine was killed in an Israeli airstrike.
Safieddine had been running Hezbollah alongside its deputy secretary general Naim Qassem since Nasrallah’s martyrdom and was expected to be formally elected as its next secretary general.
Earlier, Hezbollah said that it has lost contact with one of its senior leaders, Hashem Safieddine, who was seen as a possible successor to slain leader Hassan Nasrallah, since Friday after an Israeli air strike on Beirut’s Dahiyeh neighbourhood, a Lebanese security source told Al Jazeera.
He was the cousin of the late Nasrallah, the former secretary-general, said Al Jazeera’s Dorsa Jabbari, reporting from Beirut.
It should be noted here that Israel launched an intense bombing campaign across Lebanon two weeks ago, as it turned focus to its northern border after a year of cross-border exchanges that forced thousands of civilians to flee from both sides of the border.