Lebanon’s Hezbollah says it has chosen Naim Kassem as its new leader, a replacement for Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in September in an Israeli airstrike. Kassem, who’d.
Lebanon’s Hezbollah says it has chosen Naim Kassem as its new leader, a replacement for Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in September in an Israeli airstrike. Kassem, who’d been Nasrallah’s deputy for more than three decades, has served as the militant group’s acting leader since Nasrallah’s death on Sept. 27, reports the AP. His appointment to replace Nasrallah was announced Tuesday. Hezbollah said in a statement that its decision-making Shura Council elected Kassem, 71, a founding member of the militant group established following Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon, as the group’s new secretary-general.
