Israel’s Defense Minister Says Hizbullah’s New Leader’s Term Will Be “Temporary”

Newly appointed Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem’s tenure will prove to be “temporary”, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallad said, in an apparent threat against Qassem following the assassination of the Shiite group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut more than a month ago. “Temporary appointment. Not for long,” Galland told X, accompanying his post with a photo of Kasem. In its official Arabic account on X, the Israeli government said: “His tenure in this position may be the shortest in the history of this terrorist organization, if he follows in the footsteps of his predecessors Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddin.” “There is no solution in Lebanon other than dismantling this organization as a military force,” he wrote. Nasrallah was killed on September 27 in an Israeli raid in a southern Beirut neighborhood, and Hashem Safyeddin, his presumed successor, was also killed in early October by an Israeli strike. His death was confirmed last week by Hezbollah […]
Source: News Beast

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