According to multiple (unconfirmed) social media posts, Hezbollah’s number two commander has been taken out in an airstrike in Lebanon.
According to Egyptian news, Hezbollah’s number two leader, Hashim Safi al-Din was eliminated in an airstrike in Lebanon. pic.twitter.com/T2o22BFTGq
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) June 14, 2024
Al Din had worked his way up the ranks of the political party/militant group:
Hashim Safi Al Din (also transliterated Hashem Safieddine) (born 1964) is a Lebanese Shia cleric, senior Hezbollah official and a maternal cousin of the secretary general of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah.[1] He is the head of Hezbollah‘s Executive Council, a Lebanese political part that has a wide Lebanese support and big representation in the parliament. Hezbollah is affiliated by military action and activities known as the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon which was created in 1982…
