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Wednesday, October 30, 2024
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Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Naim Qassem to deliver first address as new Hezbollah leader today
Gianluca Pacchiani is the Arab affairs reporter for The Times of Israel
An image grab taken from Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV shows the group's deputy chief Naim Qassem delivering a speech from an undisclosed location on October 15, 2024. (AFP/HO/Al-Manar)
Hezbollah’s newly minted leader Naim Qassem is set to deliver a speech today, his first as secretary general of the terror group.
Qassem’s appointment was announced on Monday, following the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut last month and of his presumed successor Hashem Safieddine earlier this month.
