Israel introduced on Tuesday that it had killed Hashem Safieddine, a high-ranking Hezbollah official who was anticipated to succeed Hassan Nasrallah, in an airstrike outdoors Beirut three weeks in the past.
The Israeli military launched a press release confirming the deaths of Safieddine, the pinnacle of Hezbollah’s govt council, and Ali Hussein Hazima, the pinnacle of Hezbollah’s intelligence directorate, together with different Hezbollah commanders.
In an deal with to the Lebanese folks on October 8, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had beforehand talked about that the navy had “taken out” Safieddine, with out explicitly naming him.
Netanyahu mentioned that Israeli forces “took out hundreds of terrorists, together with (Hezbollah chief Hassan) Nasrallah himself and Nasrallah’s alternative and the alternative of his alternative.”
The Israeli military additional revealed that their air drive had carried out a exact, intelligence-based strike on Hezbollah’s predominant intelligence headquarters in Dahiyeh, a Hezbollah stronghold in southern Beirut, three weeks in the past. In keeping with the assertion, greater than 25 Hezbollah militants have been current on the headquarters through the strike, together with Bilal Saib Aish, who was answerable for aerial intelligence gathering.
Safieddine, a member of Hezbollah’s decision-making physique and a distant relative of Nasrallah, had been out of contact for the reason that Israeli strikes on Beirut weeks in the past, information company Reuters reported citing high-level Hezbollah supply.
Lieutenant Common Herzi Halevi, the Israeli military’s chief, acknowledged in a press release late on Tuesday, “We now have reached Nasrallah, his alternative and most of Hezbollah’s senior management,” following the affirmation of Safieddine’s dying.
