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An even better question: Why are Hezbollah leaders still meeting in Beirut?
The Israelis launched another massive attack on a building complex « on the outskirts of Beirut », the New York Times reports this morning. This apparently refers to Dahiyeh, the suburb controlled by Hamas, and where Israelis killed longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah a few days ago. Reportedly, Nasrallah’s presumed successor had gathered with what’s left of Hezbollah’s command, and . well .
Israel bombed a meeting of Hezbollah’s senior leadership around midnight on Thursday, a gathering that included Hashem Safieddine, the presumed successor of Hassan Nasrallah, the group’s longtime chief who was assassinated in an airstrike in Lebanon last week, according to three Israeli officials.
The three officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters, said Israel had struck an underground bunker belonging to Hezbollah near Beirut, the Lebanese capital. .
Mr. Safieddine, Mr. Nasrallah’s cousin, is in his 50s and has long been a major player in Hezbollah and has been considered a contender to become the group’s new secretary general. Israeli officials previously told The New York Times that Mr. Safieddine was one of the few senior Hezbollah leaders not present at the site of Israel’s heavy bombardment last Friday near Beirut that killed Mr. Nasrallah.
It was not immediately clear if Mr. Safieddine was present in the bunker struck overnight Friday.
