Israel kills Hezbollah's 'new leader' in blitz on 'secret bunker' in another huge blow for Iran-backed terror group

Israel has killed Hezbollah's 'next leader' successful a fatal blitz connected a hidden bunker successful the latest stroke for the Iran-backed panic group. 

Hashem Safieddine was killed successful an Israeli airstrike successful confederate Beirut successful aboriginal October, the Israeli subject said today. 

Safieddine was a powerful cleric wrong the Hezbollah ranks and was expected to win Hassan Nasrallah. 

According to Israel, Safieddine was killed during their airstrikes successful aboriginal October wrong a confederate suburb of Beirut. 

About 25 different Hezbollah leaders were besides reportedly killed during the airstrike. 

As the caput of Hezbollah's enforcement council, Safieddine oversaw the group's governmental affairs. He besides sat connected the Jihad Council, wherever helium helped negociate subject affairs. 

His cardinal relation successful the panic radical made him a premier people for Israel. 

Safieddine was groomed for the enactment relation by Nasrallah earlier helium was besides killed successful an Israeli precision airstrike connected Beirut. 

He wore a achromatic turban denoting descent from Islam's Prophet Mohammed, and his carnal resemblance to Nasrallah - who led the Lebanese Shi'ite radical for much than 3 decades - besides marked him arsenic a favourite for the succession. 

Safieddine hails from a salient Lebanese Shi'ite family, and was calved successful the country's predominantly Shi'ite south.

He studied astatine spiritual seminaries successful the Iranian metropolis of Qom earlier returning to Lebanon successful the 1990s to presume enactment responsibilities successful the group.

Safieddine maintained beardown ties to Hezbollah's backers successful Iran.

His son, Rida, was joined to the girl of the precocious Iranian wide Qassem Soleimani, caput of Iran's Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force, until helium was killed by a U.S. drone onslaught successful Baghdad successful 2020.

His brother, Abdullah, serves arsenic Hezbollah's typical successful Tehran.

As enforcement assembly chief, Safieddine played a relation immoderate likened to that of premier curate of a government, liable for an array of Hezbollah institutions progressive successful wellness care, education, culture, and construction, and different activities.

He led efforts to rebuild the Hezbollah-controlled confederate suburbs of Beirut pursuing the group's 2006 warfare with Israel, erstwhile swathes of the country were flattened by Israeli airstrikes.