The new head of the Hezbollah movement, Hashem Safieddine, was killed in Israeli strikes on Lebanon’s Beirut. This was reported on the Al Arabiya television channel.
According to the channel’s sources in the Lebanese security services, Safieddine has not been in contact since Friday, October 4.
Alarabiya also reported that Safieddine had been unavailable since the Israeli strike on Friday.
On October 4, Israeli aircraft dropped 73 tons of explosives on Hezbollah headquarters in a suburb of Beirut. According to Israeli media, Hashem Safieddine, the cousin and successor of the movement’s liquidated leader Hassan Nasrallah, may have been there at the time of the attack.
