After the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah will make his cousin Safi al-Din head of Hezbollah, Arab media write. They emphasize the physical similarity between the two.
The radical Shiite movement Hezbollah now has a new leader after the death of Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an operation by the Israeli army. Nasrallah's cousin Hashem Safi al-Din became the secretary general of the terrorist group, Arab media reported. The information has not yet been commented on by Hezbollah.
Safi al-Din was in charge of Hezbollah's finances
AL Arabia calls 60-year-old Safi al-Din one of the founders of Hezbollah, who has been preparing to succeed Nasrallah since 1994, but has long remained in the shadow of his influential relative. There are also reports that Nasrallah has been recommending his cousin as his successor in the event of his death since 2008.
The media noted not only the external resemblance between the two, but also their similar way of speaking. It is also reported that Safi al-Din's son was the son-in-law of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a US airstrike against Iraq in 2020.
Safi al-Din is known to have dealt with Hezbollah's financial affairs. Since 2017, he has been on the US and Saudi Arabia's lists of wanted terrorists.
Nasrallah was found with no apparent wounds
Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli army attack on an underground Hezbollah command center in Beirut on September 27th. According to eyewitnesses, only ruins and a giant crater with a depth of 30 meters remain from the headquarters of Hezbollah in Lebanon. On September 29, the agencies "Reuters" and "France Press", citing Hezbollah sources, reported that the body of the slain leader of the terrorist group had been found. According to their data, there were no visible wounds on him, which means that Nasrallah may have died from the impact of the blast wave.