Netanyahu says Israel has ‘taken out’ Nasrallah’s successors

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Netanyahu says ******* has ‘taken out’ Nasrallah’s successors

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -******** forces have ******* the would-be successors of late Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, ******** Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday, without naming them.

“We’ve degraded Hezbollah’s capabilities. We took out thousands of terrorists, including Nasrallah himself and Nasrallah’s replacement, and the replacement of the replacement,” Netanyahu said in a pre-recorded video message.

Netanyahu did not identify by name Nasrallah’s replacement that he claimed ******* had *******.

A Hezbollah official told Reuters on Sunday that ******* was obstructing search and rescue efforts in an area where Nasrallah’s potential successor Hashem Safieddine is thought to have been when ******* bombed Beirut’s southern suburbs on Thursday.

******* ******* Nasrallah in a September air strike on Beirut.

Earlier on Tuesday, ******** Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said Nasrallah’s replacement had probably been “eliminated”.

It was not immediately clear who Netanyahu meant in his comments by the “replacement of the replacement”.

“Today, Hezbollah is weaker than it has been for many, many years,” Netanyahu said in his video message, which was directed at the people of Lebanon.

Hezbollah began ******* rockets into ******* last Oct. 8, a day after ****** ************ militants attacked southern ******* from Gaza. Hezbollah cited solidarity with ******.

Some 60,000 ******** citizens in the country’s north have been forced to leave their homes, while *******’s stated objective is to make its northern areas safe from Hezbollah rocket ***** and allow those displaced residents to return.

“******* has a right to defend itself. ******* also has a right to win. And ******* will win,” Netanyahu said.

He urged Lebanon to “take back your country” and return it to a path of peace and prosperity and take advantage of an opportunity that hasn’t existed in decades.

“If you don’t, Hezbollah will continue to try to ****** ******* from densely populated areas at your expense. It doesn’t care if Lebanon is dragged into a wider war,” he added. “Christians, Druze, Muslims — Sunnis and Shiites — all of you are suffering because of Hezbollah’s futile war against *******.

“Don’t let these terrorists ******** your future any more than they’ve already done,” Netanyahu added. “You have an opportunity to save Lebanon before it falls into the abyss of a long war that will lead to destruction and suffering like we see in Gaza. It doesn’t have to be that way.”

(Reporting by Steven Scheer and Alexander Cornwell; Editing by Gareth Jones and Hugh Lawson)

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