Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hinted on October 8 that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) succeeded in killing Hezbollah presumed new Secretary-General Hashem Safieddine, who was recently targeted in the Lebanese capital of Beirut, and claimed that the leader next in line of command was also killed.
In an English-language video message addressed to the Lebanese people, Netanyahu said that Israel has “degraded Hezbollah’s capabilities; we took out thousands of terrorists, including [Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan] Nasrallah himself, and Nasrallah’s replacement, and his replacement’s replacement.”
“Today, Hezbollah is weaker than it has been in many, many years,” said the primer.
Netanyahu did not identify by name any of the successors he said had been killed. However, Safieddine, the head of Hezbollah’s executive council, is presumed to be the successor of Nasrallah following his assassination in the southern Beirut suburbs of Dahieh on September 27.
Safieddine was reportedly the target of a violanet Israeli strike that targeted Dahieh, a key stronghold of Hezbollah, on October 3.
Hezbollah has not publicly confirmed Safieddine death, and the IDF spokesman declined on October 8 evening to conclusively say that he had been killed.
“We struck Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters in Beirut… this is the headquarters of the head of the intelligence division, Abu Abdullah Mortada,” IDF spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said in response to a question from a reporter at a press conference. “With him, we know that Hashem Safieddine was there. The results of this strike are still being looked into, Hezbollah is trying to hide the details. When we know, we will update the public.”
Earlier on October 8, Hezbollah Deputy Secretary-General Naim Qassem appeared in a video message commemorating one year of Hezbollah’s fight against Israel in support of the Gaza Strip. Qassem said that Hezbollah ”capabilities are fine and our fighters are deployed along the frontlines.”
Qassem also stressed that Hezbollah supports efforts by Lebanese Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri, an ally of the group, to secure a ceasefire.
The confrontation on the Lebanese-Israeli border first broke out after the start of the war in Gaza, with Hezbollah and its allies launching near-daily attacks in support of the Palestinian enclave. Israel escalated its attacks on Lebanon starting from September 17 and on September 30 it launched a ground offensive in the country.
Overall, the confrontation between Hezbollah and IDF has so far resulted in 26 civilian deaths in Israel and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights as well as the deaths of at least 33 soldiers and security officers. On the Lebanese side, more than 2,119 people have been killed, including more than 500 members of Hezbollah.
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the insatiable zionazi terror beast in welfare warfare khazar occupied palestine is splashing and floundering in so much blood that it makes the so-called hollow co$t look like a joke. what are the chances of a disgusting monster such as nitay aka milecocksky aka nut’nyahoo not getting ripped to chunks and burned crispy before this jew fe$t slaughter is over? zero because karma will vaporize this demon in the coming months.
6 million mental retarded
sf and its daily diarrhea with zionist propaganda
erasing a city with ussan tax cattle planes and bombs is not quite having the tick tock tranny idf diaper heads take and hold territory on the ground. as for the genocide in gaza, the khazar can slaughter women and children but hamas remains in control. as the pentacon scum learned in vietnam you can never destroy a people that is united against pure unadulterated evil filth.
talmudist turd templars cannot be reasoned with. that is why there will always be resistance to their oppression, no matter how many nasrallah’s they take out
you less neurons than a chicken
hezbollah said they found a new replacement. see how whack a mole works? lol. you cannot fix stupid. the more civilians you kill, the more hezbollah recruits you make. jews are clearly overrated in the intelligence domain.
and who gave a shit what satanyahu say? fucking pos warmonger.
these zionists, smh 🤦 they need to be destroyed once and for all.
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