Late on Tuesday, the military stated that Israel’s air power “carried out a exact, intelligence-based strike on Hezbollah’s important intelligence headquarters,” within the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, Hezbollah’s stronghold within the Lebanese capital three weeks in the past.
The assertion added that over 25 Hezbollah militants have been current within the headquarters throughout the strike, “together with Bilal Saib Aish, who was in control of aerial intelligence gathering”.
A member of Hezbollah’s decision-making physique and a distant relative of Nasrallah, Safieddine was out of contact since Israeli strikes on Beirut weeks in the past, a high-level Hezbollah supply stated on the time.
A supply near Hezbollah advised AFP in early October that the deeply spiritual cleric Safieddine, who had good relations with Hezbollah backer Iran, was the “almost certainly” candidate for the occasion’s high job.
Gray-bearded and bespectacled, Safieddine bore a hanging resemblance to his distant cousin Nasrallah however was a number of years his junior, aged in his late 50s or early 60s.
