The powerful cleric had been expected to succeed Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli strike last month
Hashem Safieddine (Bilal Hussein/AP)
Hezbollah has announced that Hashem Safieddine, one of its leading officials who had been widely expected to be the group’s next leader, was killed in an Israeli air strike.
The announcement came a day after Israel said it had killed Safieddine in a strike earlier this month in Beirut’s southern suburbs.
