Hezbollah confirms death of senior cleric Hashem Safieddine in Israeli air strike

Israeli strikes have killed much of Hezbollah’s top leadership over recent weeks

Hashem Safieddine. File Picture: Bilal Hussein/AP

Hezbollah has announced that Hashem Safieddine, one of its leading officials who had been widely expected to be the group’s next leader, was killed in an Israeli air strike.

The announcement came a day after Israel said it had killed Safieddine in a strike earlier this month in Beirut’s southern suburbs.