The deputy Hezbollah leader has been named as Nasrallah's successor, a month after his death in a strike on Beirut.
Lebanon's Hezbollah movement has announced it has chosen deputy head Naim Qassem to succeed Hassan Nasrallah as leader after his death in an Israeli strike on south Beirut last month. "Hezbollah's Shura Council agreed to elect... Sheikh Naim Qassem as secretary general of Hezbollah," the Iran-backed group said in a statement, more than a month after Nasrallah's killing.
Qassem, 71, was one of Hezbollah's founders in 1982 and had been the party's deputy secretary general since 1991, the year before Nasrallah took the helm. He was born in Beirut in 1953 to a family from the village of Kfar Fila on the border with Israel. He was the most senior Hezbollah official to continue making public appearances after Nasrallah largely went into hiding following the group's 2006 war with Israel.
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