An Israeli air strike reportedly targeted Hashem Safieddine, who is widely touted to be Hezbollah's next leader.
Senior Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine is widely touted to be the militant group’s next leader, following the death in an Israeli air strike of Hassan Nasrallah.
The loss of Nasrallah’s rumoured successor would be yet another blow to Hezbollah and its patron Iran. Israeli strikes across the region in the past year, sharply accelerated in the past few weeks, have decimated Hezbollah’s leadership. Lebanon’s health ministry said on Oct 5 that Israeli strikes had killed at least 25 people and wounded 127 others the day before.The Lebanese security official told Reuters that an Oct 5 strike on a Palestinian refugee camp in Tripoli killed a member of Hamas, his wife and two children. Media affiliated with the Palestinian group said the strike killed a leader of its armed wing, naming him as Saeed Atallah.
Israel has, meanwhile, staged nightly bombardment of Dahiyeh, once a bustling and densely populated area of Beirut and a stronghold for Hezbollah. The Israeli army could not immediately be reached for comment but said that two projectiles had crossed over from Lebanon, one of which was intercepted while the other landed but caused no damage.
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