Reports suggest the strikes on Dahiyeh were targeting Hashem Safieddine, who is seen as the most likely candidate to replace Hassan Nasrallah
The Israeli military launched a series of strikes on southern Beirut on Thursday night, in one of the most intense bombardments on the city since the campaign began last week.told the AFP news agency that Israel had conducted 11 consecutive strikes on the group’s stronghold in the Lebanese capital.and the head of its executive council, was the target of the strikes, the New York Times and Axios reported, citing Israeli officials.
“You are located near facilities and interests belonging to Hezbollah, and the IDF will work against them in the near future,” he had said in a statement on X.number two in the organisation’s political wing Previously, the group’s political leaders like Nasrallah, Safieddine and other officials in its political wing, were thought not to be targets of Israel during wartime. On Thursday, an Israeli airstrike targeted the building which housed the group’s media relations office in southern Beirut. It was unclear if any members of the office were in the office at the time of the strike.
Khamenei’s rare Friday sermon – a first in almost five years – comes three days before the one-year anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October. Khamenei last led Friday prayers in January 2020 afterfired missiles at a US army base in Iraq, in response to a strike that killed Revolutionary Guards commander Qassem Suleimani.
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