Source: Le Monde [France]
“Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement announced Tuesday, October 29, it has chosen deputy head Naim Kassem to succeed Hassan Nasrallah as leader after his death in an Israeli strike on south Beirut last month. … Hashem Safieddine, the head of Hezbollah’s executive council, was initially tipped to succeed Nasrallah. But he too was killed in an Israeli strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs shortly after Nasrallah’s assassination. … Kassem, 71, was one of Hezbollah’s founders in 1982 and has been the party’s deputy secretary general since 1991, the year before Nasrallah took the helm.” (10/29/24)