By The New York Times (World News) | Created at 2024-10-04 15:50:11 | Updated at 2024-10-08 06:44:13
3 days ago
Israeli strikes have aimed to kill the leaders of the Lebanese militia, most recently Hashem Safieddine. It was not immediately clear whether he had been killed in an overnight strike near Beirut.
Hassan Nasrallah
Secretary general of Hezbollah
Killed Sept. 27
Naim Qassem
Deputy secretary
general
Presumed
successor
of Nasrallah
SHURA COUNCIL
JIHAD COUNCIL
Hashem
Safieddine
Executive
Council
Targeted Oct. 3
Ali Karaki
Top commander
in southern Lebanon
Killed Sept. 27
Fuad Shukr
Widely regarded
as group’s top
military commander
Killed July 30
Ibrahim Amin
al-Sayyed
Political
council
Mohammad
Raad
Head of
parliamentary
bloc
Ibrahim Aqeel
Oversaw military
operations and
founded group’s
elite commando unit
Killed Sept. 20
Hassan Nasrallah
Secretary general of Hezbollah
Killed Sept. 27
Naim Qassem
Deputy secretary general
SHURA COUNCIL
Presumed successor
of Nasrallah
JIHAD COUNCIL
Hashem Safieddine
Executive Council
Targeted Oct. 3
Ali Karaki
Top commander
in southern Lebanon
Killed Sept. 27
Ibrahim Amin
al-Sayyed
Political council
Fuad Shukr
Widely regarded as group’s
top military commander
Killed July 30
Mohammad Raad
Head of parliamentary bloc
Ibrahim Aqeel
Oversaw military operations
and founded group’s
elite commando unit
Killed Sept. 20
Possible other members
- Oct. 4, 2024, 11:43 a.m. ET
Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia, has sustained blow after blow over the past few weeks, as Israeli strikes targeted and killed a number of the group’s longtime military and political leaders.
On Thursday night, Israeli warplanes carried out an airstrike south of Beirut targeting Hashem Safieddine, a cousin and the presumed successor to the assassinated Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, according to several Israeli officials. By Friday afternoon, it was not yet clear whether Mr. Safieddine had been killed.
The strike set off huge explosions and left a ruined landscape of jagged concrete, twisted metal and smoldering debris in the Dahiya, a densely populated area where an Israeli strike on Sept. 28 killed Hezbollah’s longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah.
Above is a look at who has been killed and targeted among Hezbollah’s leadership.
