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Israel reportedly killed Safieddine on 3 October by dropping 73 tonnes of bombs on Dahiyeh in an attack similar to the bunker-buster bombs that killed Nasrallah a week earlier.
According to the Israeli Channel 12, Israeli security officials were "increasingly confident" that Safieddine had been killed in the attack. [5] On 5 October, a Lebanese security source reported that Hezbollah lost contact with Safieddine, and that Hezbollah has not heard from him since the airstrike. [11] [12]
Israel on Tuesday confirmed it had killed Hashem Safieddine, the heir apparent to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah who was previously killed in an Israeli attack last month on the Iran-backed ...
Safieddine was born in 1964 in Deir Qanoun En Nahr, southern Lebanon, to a respected Shia family. [1] His name is also rendered as Safi al-Din. [1] [2] He was a maternal first cousin of Hassan Nasrallah. [3] [4] He was the brother of Abdallah Safieddine, [5] a key Hezbollah figure based in Tehran. [6]
Netanyahu, in a video address to the people of Lebanon, confirmed that Hashem Safieddine, who was expected to replace Nasrallah, was killed amid speculation of his death… Netanyahu says ...
Senior Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine, who was expected to succeed Nasrallah as the group's secretary-general following his assassination, was reportedly targeted by an Israeli airstrike in Beirut. [224] It was unclear whether Safieddine had been killed. [225] Hezbollah said it had lost contact with Safieddine after the strike. [226]
The Israeli military said the airstrike that killed Safieddine was aimed at Dahieh, a Hezbollah stronghold, where more than 25 of the group’s members were inside the underground headquarters.
BEIRUT (Reuters) -Hashem Safieddine, reported by Israel as apparently killed in its confrontation with Hezbollah, is widely seen as Hassan Nasrallah's likely successor as head of the Iran-backed ...