Media: Hashem Safieddine to replace Hasan Nasrullah

Hashem Safieddine, head of Hezbollah's Executive Council could replace the group's slain long-time leader Hassan Nasrallah, Report informs, via Yedioth Ahronoth Newspaper (Ynetnews).

Hashem Safieddine is on the US terror list since 2017. He was reported to have survived the Israeli attack on the terror group's underground bunker on Friday.

He was born in 1964 in a village near the coastal city of Tyre in South Lebanon, to a well-established family of clerics.

Safieddine is Nasrallah's cousin and has been designated, next in line since the 1990s when he was called back to Beirut from his studies in Iran, to head Hezbollah's Executive Council just two years after Nasrallah took over leadership of the Group.

Reportedly, Safieddine has close ties to the military wing of Hezbollah as well and has been on the US terror list since 2017.

Since the outbreak of the war, Safieddine represented Nasrallah in public events including at the funeral of high-ranking members of terror group, who were killed in the coordinated detonation of communication devices, attributed to Israel.

"The wounded will return to their Jihad," he said. "We tell the enemy that if its aim is to stop support of Gaza, it must know that that will only grow."