Bombings stepped up amid fears of Israeli ground incursion

Israel-Iran War Live Updates: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei led the Friday prayers “for the first time in 5 years” today. He hailed the ‘brilliant action’ by Iranian forces against Israeli regime a few days back and called it legal.

An Israeli airstrike in Beirut reportedly killed Hezbollah leader Hashem Safieddine, seen as a potential successor to Hassan Nasrallah. The attack has not been officially confirmed by Israel or Hezbollah, but Safieddine held a critical position in the group’s leadership.

Bombings stepped up amid fears of Israeli ground incursion

A cousin brother of Nasrallah, Safieddine, is considered the number two in Hezbollah. He is quite close to Iran.

New Delhi: Senior Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine, widely viewed as the likely successor to Hezbollah Chief Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in Israeli airstrikes on Beirut at midnight on Thursday. However, Safieddine’s killing has not been confirmed either by the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) or Hezbollah in Lebanon. The number of casualties is not known yet.  […]

Israel on Thursday said it hit Hezbollah's intelligence headquarters in the Lebanese capital Beirut amid growing fears of an all-out war in the Middle East following recent days of exchange of hostilities between Israeli troops and Iran-backed group.

Hours before a symbolic funeral for slain Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah is set to be held today, an Israeli airstrike in Beirut targeted his cousin, Hashem Safieddine. But will the strike on Hashem Safieddine impact Nasrallah's symbolic funeral today?

Hassan Nasrallah, who steered Hezbollah in his image for 32 years, has temporarily been buried in a secret place. He was a vegetable vendor's son who rose as a charismatic orator. A friend of Iran's Khamenei and bitter enemy to Israel, Nasrallah's end was as secretive as his life.