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World

Hezbollah source says contact ‘lost’ with top figure Safieddine

Published October 5, 2024
The head of Hezbollah’s Executive Council Hashem Safieddine attends the funeral of members of the group in Beirut’s southern suburbs. Photo: AFP
The head of Hezbollah’s Executive Council Hashem Safieddine attends the funeral of members of the group in Beirut’s southern suburbs. Photo: AFP

BEIRUT: A high-level Hezbollah source said on Saturday that contact with Hashem Safieddine, widely touted as potentially the group’s next leader, had been lost following Israeli strikes this week.

“Contact with Sayyed Safieddine has been lost since the violent strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs” early on Friday, the official told AFP.

“We don’t know if he was at the targeted site, or who may have been there with him,” he added.

A second source close to Hezbollah also confirmed that communication had been cut off with Safieddine and that his whereabouts were unknown.

Hezbollah “is trying to reach the underground headquarters that were targeted, but every single time Israel starts striking again to impede rescue efforts,” he said.

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Safieddine “was with Hezbollah’s head of intelligence,” known as Hajj Murtada, when the strikes took place, he said.

Both sources requested anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.

Early on Friday, a source close to Hezbollah said Israel had conducted 11 consecutive strikes on the group’s south Beirut stronghold, in one of the most powerful raids since Israel intensified its campaign of bombardment last week.

AFP footage showed giant balls of flame and thick smoke rising from the site that was attacked.

Israel’s military said it had hit “targets belonging to Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters in Beirut”.

The attack came a week after the Israeli military said it killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in air strikes on the group’s headquarters in south Beirut.

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