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Hezbollah’s Safieddine ‘unreachable’ since Friday, source says

By Thomson Reuters Oct 5, 2024 | 5:27 AM

CAIRO (Reuters) – Israeli air strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs since Friday have kept rescue workers from searching the site of an Israeli strike suspected to have killed Hezbollah’s anticipated next leader, three Lebanese security sources told Reuters on Saturday.

One of the sources said Safieddine, widely expected to succeed slain leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, had been unreachable since the strike on Friday.

(Reporting by Laila Bassam; editing by Jason Neely)