Israel has killed at least 10 high-ranking members of the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah in recent months, including its decades-long chief Hassan Nasrallah. Here's who they were — and the key leaders that remain.
Hezbollah has named its new chief less than a month after Hassan Nasrallah 's death. Here's what we know about how the Lebanese armed group is now organisedHezbollah has named its new chief less than a month after Hassan Nasrallah 's death. Here's what we know about how the Lebanese armed group is now organisedLess than a month after Israel killed Hezbollah's long-time leader Hassan Nasrallah , the Lebanese armed group has named Sheikh Naim Qassem as its new chief.
These strikes have dealt the most severe blow to Hezbollah since it was formed in the early 1980s. But although Israel's assassination campaign has made it more difficult for Hezbollah to function, the group is far from destroyed.Headquartered in Beirut, Hezbollah is both an armed group and a political party that has held seats in Lebanon's parliament since 1992.oversees the group's political strategies and alliances.
Beirut-raised, though his family was from south Lebanon, Qassem was appointed as Hezbollah's deputy-secretary general in 1991. Speaking on September 30, Qassem said Hezbollah would choose a successor to its slain secretary-general "at the earliest opportunity" and would continue to fight Israel in solidarity with Palestinians.
Estimates have varied about the scale of Hezbollah's losses, with one Western diplomat saying prior to Nasrallah's killing that up to 25 per cent of the group's missile capacity had been lost.
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