BEIRUT, October 29. /TASS/. Hezbollah’s deputy chief, Naim Qasem, has been named the Lebanese group’s new leader.
“The Shura Council (Hezbollah’s main decision-making body – TASS) agreed to make Sheikh Naim Qasem the movement’s new secretary-general,” the group said in a statement.
Israel has been delivering massive airstrikes on Hezbollah military targets since it launched Operation Northern Arrows in Lebanon on September 23. The Lebanon-based Shia movement’s Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Beirut on September 27. Hezbollah confirmed his death and pledged continued actions to confront Israel.