The loss of Nasrallah’s rumoured heir would be yet another blow to Hezbollah and its patron Iran. Israeli strikes across the region have decimated Hezbollah’s leadership.
Hezbollah has “lost contact” with the potential successor to slain leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, a Lebanese security source said on Saturday, after an Israeli airstrike on their intelligence headquarters.
Ongoing Israeli strikes on Beirut’s southern suburb - known as Dahiyeh - since Friday have kept rescue workers from scouring the site of the attack, the Lebanese security source and two other Lebanese security sources said.Credit:Israel expanded its conflict in Lebanon on Saturday with its first strike in the northern city of Tripoli, a Lebanese security official said, after more bombs hit Beirut suburbs and Israeli troops launched raids in the south.
The Israeli assault has also killed hundreds of ordinary Lebanese, including rescue workers, Lebanese officials say, and forced 1.2 million people - almost a quarter of the population - to flee their homes. Israel has meanwhile staged nightly bombardment of Dahiyeh, once a bustling and densely populated area of Beirut and a stronghold for Hezbollah.On Saturday, smoke billowed over Dahiyeh, large parts of which have been reduced to rubble sending residents fleeing to other parts of Beirut or of Lebanon.
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