Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group says it has chosen Naim Kassem to replace its slain leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in September in an Israeli airstrike.
ADVERTISEMENTHezbollah has elected a new chief, Naim Kassem, the militant group announced in a statement on Tuesday.
Kassem had been deputy to Hassan Nasrallah for over three decades, who was killed in September in an Israeli airstrike. He has served as the militant group’s acting leader since Nasrallah’s death.
Hezbollah vowed to continue with Nasrallah’s policies “until victory is achieved.”
Kassem was appointed deputy chief of the Lebanese militant group in 1991, by Abbas al-Musawi, its leader at the time. He remained in his role when Nasrallah became leader, after Al-Musawi was killed the next year.
