Massive consecutive strikes hit Beirut’s southern suburbs from late yesterday into today sending booms across the city and sparking flashes of red and white for nearly 30 minuted visible from several kilometers away.
The strikes came after days of bombing by Israel of Beirut suburbs considered strongholds for Hezbollah, killing its leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, and possibly his potential successor.
A Lebanese security source saidyesterdau that Hasgem Safieddine, the potential successor, had been out of contact since Friday, after an Israeli airstrike near the city’s international airport that was reported to have targeted him.
The Israeli military said it eliminated Nasrallah in a strike on the groups central command headquarters in Beirut on September 27. Hezbollah confirmed he had been killed.
Lebanese security forces said Israeli strikes since Friday on Dahiyeh, a residential area and Hezbollah stronghold south of central Beirut, have kept rescue workers from scouring the site of Thursday nights attack.
Hezbollah has made no comment so far on Safieddine . Israeli strikes across the region in the past year, sharply accekarated in the past few weeks, have decimated Hezbollah’s leadership.
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