Israel has confirmed the assassination of potential Nasrallah successor Hashem Safieddin in Beirut. Safieddin, the head of Hezbollah’s Executive Council, and Hussein Ali al-Seima, the head of Hezbollah’s intelligence service, were killed along with other Hezbollah commanders “about three weeks ago,” the Israeli army said Tuesday evening.
Safieddin was seen as a possible successor to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Lebanese capital at the end of September.
Israel massively expanded its attacks
Israel has massively expanded its attacks on the Iranian-backed pro-Shia Hezbollah militia in Lebanon in recent weeks, so far focusing mainly on targets in their strongholds in southern Lebanon and in the southern suburbs of the capital Beirut.
In late September, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah and other high-ranking Shiite militia commanders were killed.
According to media reports, further Israeli airstrikes targeted his expected successor Safieddin a week after Nasrallah’s death. A senior Hezbollah official told AFP the day after the alleged attacks on Safieddin that contact with him had been “lost” since October 4.
In response to, among other things, the assassination of Nasrallah, Iran attacked Israel with about 200 missiles on October 1 – it was the second direct Iranian attack on the country in six months. Israel, in turn, has announced a response to the Iranian attack.
Source: Krone
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