Israel announced it had conducted an airstrike on the Hezbollah intelligence headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon. Israeli media have interpreted this attack as an assassination attempt targeting the successor of the deceased Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah.
On Thursday, Barak Ravid, an Axios political and foreign policy reporter, quoted two Israeli sources on X (formerly Twitter), confirming that the airstrike was specifically aimed at senior Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine.
According to The Guardian, Safieddine, a cousin of Nasrallah, was widely seen as a potential successor to the Hezbollah leader, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike on September 27. Safieddine was designated as a terrorist by the U.S. State Department in 2017 and has since been a key figure within the group.
It remains unclear whether Safieddine was killed in the latest strike. However, The Guardian noted that the explosions resembled those that killed Nasrallah. Reports suggest the airstrike involved the use of over 100 bunker-buster bombs, each weighing around 900 kilograms (1,984 pounds) and capable of penetrating walls up to 2 meters (6.56 feet) thick.
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