Hezbollah source says contact 'lost' with top figure Hashem Safieddine

A high-level Hezbollah source said 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 Friday, the source told AFP, requesting anonymity to discuss sensitive matters and adding: "We don't know if he was at the targeted site, or who may have been there with him."


AFP