WNAM REPORT: Hashem Safieddine, a prominent figure in Hezbollah’s leadership, has been named by the group’s executive council as the successor to Hassan Nasrallah as Secretary General, according to sources.
Nasrallah was killed in his highly secure underground headquarters, built under a complex of six buildings in the heart of Dahieh, the southern suburbs of Beirut, in a massive Israeli airstrike on Friday. He reportedly died of suffocation in an unventilated bunker, which is why his body was recovered intact from the rubble.
Safieddine (Safi Al-Din), a cousin of Nasrallah, was notably one of the senior leaders who were not present at the site of the strike that killed several top Hezbollah commanders.
