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Hezbollah elects Naim Qassem to succeed slain head Hassan Nasrallah
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Sheikh Naim Qassem has been elected as the new leader of the Lebanese group Hezbollah following the death of secretary general Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli attack. The decision comes after a period of intense conflict between Hezbollah and Israel, which has resulted in the deaths of many senior Hezbollah officials. Qassem, 71, has been a senior figure in the group for over 30 years and has been its deputy secretary general since 1991. He has filled in for Nasrallah since his death and has supported efforts towards achieving a ceasefire in Lebanon.
His tenure in this position may be the shortest in the history of this ... organization if he follows in the footsteps of his predecessors Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine.
There is no solution in Lebanon except to dismantle this organization as a military force.
We estimate that we are at 1,500 Hezbollah operatives killed, and our estimates are conservative. I assume there are more we don't know of.
The organization was left with little choices in terms of the top tier clerics.
Those councils, the military and the Shura Council, and particularly Nasrallah, laid out a strategy, a blueprint, and that's what Sheikh Naim Qassem is following.
He is not innovating any kind of new strategy here.
He was hoping to become Hezbollah's secretary-general when Musawi was killed in 1992.
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sources
- 1.The Times of India
- 2.Al Jazeera
- 3.Le Monde
- 4.CNN
- 5.CNA News
- 6.France 24
- 7.The Guardian
- 8.The New York Times
- 9.BBC
- 10.The Times
- 11.The Washington Post
- 12.South China Morning Post
perspectives
- 1.US Foreign Policy
- 2.Israel-Palestine Conflict
- 3.British Foreign Policy
- 4.Israel Foreign Policy
- 5.Israel under Benjamin Netanyahu
- 6.2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel
- 7.Iran Foreign Policy
- 8.Ethnic tensions
- 9.French Foreign Policy
- 10.Israel-Lebanese Hezbollah Conflict
- 11.Espionage
- 12.Italian Foreign Policy
countries
organizations
- 1.Hezbollah
- 2.Shura Council
- 3.Shia
- 4.US State Department
- 5.Hamas
- 6.Shiite Amal Movement
- 7.Twitter/X
- 8.Israel Defense Forces
- 9.Movement of the Dispossessed
- 10.Radwan Forces
- 11.UN Security Council
- 12.Iranian Revolutionary Guards
persons
- 1.Naim Qassem
- 2.Hassan Nasrallah
- 3.Hashem Safieddine
- 4.Yoav Galant
- 5.Abbas Al-Musawi
- 6.Nabih Berri
- 7.Ibrahim Amin Al-Sayyed
- 8.Ibrahim Aqil
- 9.Abbas Araqchi
- 10.Amal Saad
- 11.Ben Hubbard
- 12.Mohanad Hage Ali