The man would lead Hezbollah after the death of Hassan Nasrallah in a Beirut airstrike
The two leaders are likely contenders for the next head of Hezbollah following the death of Hassan Nasrallah. Read here.
Beirut: The Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah announced on Saturday that its leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, was “martyred in a criminal attack” in the southern suburbs of Beirut late on Friday evening. “Our leadership is committed to continue the jihad against the enemy and to support Gaza and defend Lebanon and its stable nation,” the organization said in a statement, news agency IANS reported. The death of Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah has left a significant void in the organization, which has already experienced a major loss of leadership after months of targeted Israeli attacks.
However, Nasrallah's death has not only lost an individual, but a representative figure for both the Lebanese Shia movement's supporters and the wider region. In 1992, Nasrallah became the Secretary General of Hezbollah at the age of 30. Finding a successor of comparable stature will be a challenge for Hezbollah as it prepares for ongoing Israeli attacks and the possibility of a ground invasion of southern Lebanon.
The two leaders are likely contenders for the next head of Hezbollah following the death of Hassan Nasrallah. Read here.
Hashem Safaidin
According to a report in Al Jazeera, the head of Hezbollah's executive council and Nasrallah's cousin, Safaidin, is considered the frontrunner to become the movement's next secretary-general. Safaidin was born in 1964 into a Shia family in the southern village of Deir Qanoun en-Nahr near Tyre. He studied theology with Nasrallah at two major centers of Shiite religious learning: Najaf in Iraq and Qom in Iran. Both of them joined Hizbullah in the early days of the organization.
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