Israel says it killed Nasrallah’s heir apparent

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******* says it ******* Nasrallah’s heir apparent

The ******** military say they ******* the cleric tipped to succeed the late Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in an air strike nearly three weeks ago.

Hashem Safieddine ***** in air strikes on the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, according to the ******* Defense Forces (IDF).

Hezbollah, a powerful Lebanese Shia ******* organisation fighting *******, has not confirmed Safieddine’s ******.

Its previous leader, Nasrallah, was ******* by an ******** air strike on Beirut on 27 September.

After air strikes near the city’s airport on 4 October, Hezbollah officials said they had lost contact with Safieddine, while US media cited ******** officials as saying the cleric had been the target of the ********.

Huge blasts shook the city that night, leaving plumes of smoke that could still be seen into the morning.

On Tuesday, the IDF issued a

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saying Safieddine had been ******* along with Ali Hussein Hazima, described as commander of Hezbollah’s Intelligence Headquarters, in a strike on the organisation’s main intelligence headquarters in Beirut.

It accused Safieddine of directing “********** attacks against the State of *******” for years, as well as taking part in Hezbollah’s “central decision-making processes”.

Hezbollah is a military, political and social organisation that wields considerable power in Lebanon. It is designated as a ********** organisation by ******* as well as the US, the *** and other countries.

Safieddine himself was

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A cousin of Nasrallah, he took religious studies in Iran and his son was married to a daughter of Gen Qasem Soleimani, Iran’s most powerful military commander, who was ******* in a 2020 US air strike in Iraq.

He is believed to have been aged about 60 at the time of his reported ******.

In a speech given in Beirut this summer, Safieddine described how Hezbollah viewed its leadership succession.

“In our resistance, when any leader is martyred, another takes up the flag and goes on with new, certain, strong determination,” he was quoted as saying by AFP news agency.

******* went on the offensive against Hezbollah after almost a year of cross-border hostilities sparked by the war in Gaza, saying it wanted to ensure the safe return of residents of border areas displaced by Hezbollah rocket, missile and drone attacks.

Over the past year, at least 2,464 Lebanese people have been ******* and nearly 12,000 injured, according to Lebanon’s health ministry.

Hezbollah has attacked ******* with thousands of rockets and drones over the same *******, and at least 59 people have been ******* in northern ******* and the occupied Golan Heights, Reuters news agency reports.

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