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Hezbollah hits out at report that contact ‘lost’ with Safieddine, but doesn’t confirm or deny it
Senior Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine addresses mourners during the funeral of a Hezbollah commander, Taleb Abdallah, in Beirut's southern suburbs on June 12, 2024. (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)
In a vague statement responding to an AFP report that contact has been lost with Hezbollah’s presumed next leader Hashem Safieddine, the Lebanese terror group says there are “no Hezbollah sources and our viewpoint is issued in official statements.”
Despite Hezbollah’s pushback at the reporting, it doesn’t confirm or deny whether contact with Safieddine has been lost.
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