Israel obstructing search for Hezbollah’s Safieddine, Hezbollah official says

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******* obstructing search for Hezbollah’s Safieddine, Hezbollah official says

BEIRUT (Reuters) – ******* is not allowing a search for senior Hezbollah leader Hashem Safieddine to progress after it bombed Beirut’s southern suburbs on Thursday, a Hezbollah official said, noting the group would only announce his fate when the search concluded.

Safieddine is seen as a likely successor to former leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah who was ******* in an ******** strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs, known as Dahiye, on Sept. 27.

His fate ******** unclear.

******* should “let rescue teams do their work” senior Hezbollah political official Mahmoud Qmati told Iraqi state television.

He said that Hezbollah was now being jointly led until it could pick a new leader, which would take time.

“What’s important is that ****** command is in place,” he said.

“The method of choosing a replacement for the secretary-general takes time and requires appropriate circumstances, and for that reason we suffice today with temporary ****** command,” he said.

Qmati said Nasrallah’s body remained in Lebanon and that he would be ***** to rest in Beirut’s southern suburbs, where Hezbollah holds heavy influence, when conditions allowed.

******* has ******* much of Hezbollah’s military command and senior leadership in nearly a year of fighting that began when Hezbollah opened a front in solidarity with Palestinians the day after ******’ Oct. 7 ******* on *******.

The conflict has rapidly expanded in the past couple of weeks, with ******* snubbing a US-backed push for a ceasefire, ******** Nasrallah and launching a wide air campaign that has pummeled Lebanese towns and villages and left 1.2 million people displaced, according to Lebanese government figures.

(Reporting by Timour Azhari, writing by Timour Azhari and Hatem Maher, editing by Christina Fincher, Alexandra Hudson)

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