Israeli strikes have aimed to kill the leaders of the Lebanese militia, most recently Hashem Safieddine. It was not immediately clear whether he had been killed in an overnight strike near Beirut.
Sources: U.S., Lebanese and Israeli analysts; State and Treasury Department; Alma Research and Education Center
By The New York Times
Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia, has sustained blow after blow over the past few weeks, as Israeli strikes targeted and killed a number of the group’s longtime military and political leaders.
On Thursday night, Israeli warplanes carried out an airstrike south of Beirut targeting Hashem Safieddine, a cousin and the presumed successor to the assassinated Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, according to several Israeli officials. By Friday afternoon, it was not yet clear whether Mr. Safieddine had been killed.
The strike set off huge explosions and left a ruined landscape of jagged concrete, twisted metal and smoldering debris in the Dahiya, a densely populated area where an Israeli strike on Sept. 28 killed Hezbollah’s longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah.
Above is a look at who has been killed and targeted among Hezbollah’s leadership.
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