Hashem Safieddine named new Hezbollah leader, report says

Hashem Safieddine, a prominent figure in Hezbollah's leadership, has been named by the group's executive council as the successor to Hassan Nasrallah as Secretary General, according to sources cited by Al-Arabiya, Report informs via Iran International.

Nasrallah was killed in his highly secure underground headquarters, built under a complex of six buildings in the heart of Dahieh, the southern suburbs of Beirut, in a massive Israeli airstrike on Friday. He reportedly died of suffocation in an unventilated bunker, which is why his body was recovered intact from the rubble.

Safieddine (Safi Al-Din), a cousin of Nasrallah, was notably one of the senior leaders who were not present at the site of the strike that killed several top Hezbollah commanders.