ISRAEL’S MILITARY CONFIRMS KILLING OF LEBANON HEZBOLLAH’S HASHEM SAFIEDDINE: REPORT

Tue 22 October 2024:

Israel’s military confirmed on Tuesday the killing of Hashem Safieddine, of Lebanon’s Hezbollah, who is the apparent heir to Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli attack, Reuters reported.

The IDF announces that Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Beirut earlier this month.

Safieddine, the head of Hezbollah’s executive council, was presumed to be the successor of Hassan Nasrallah following his assassination.

According to the military, Safieddine was killed alongside the head of the group’s intelligence division, Hussein Ali Hazima, during the strike on October 4.

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The strike had targeted Hezbollah’s underground intelligence headquarters in Beirut, which the army says was “in the heart of a civilian population” in the Lebanese capital’s southern suburb, known as Dahiyeh.

The IDF says that more than 25 members of Hezbollah’s intelligence division were at the headquarters when the strike was carried out, including other top commanders.

Safieddine had been out of contact since the strike, but only today the IDF says it could confirm his death. Hezbollah has not yet announced his death.

After confirming the death of Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi warns that Israel will reach all its enemies.

“We reached [Hassan] Nasrallah, his replacement, and most of Hezbollah’s leadership. We will know how to reach anyone who threatens the security of Israel’s citizens,” Halevi says in remarks provided by the IDF.

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