BEIRUT: Hashem Safieddine, with whom contact has been lost after Israeli air strikes, according to a senior Hezbollah source, is the man widely considered the potential successor to the group's assassin

Hezbollah loses contact with potential leader Safieddine after Israeli strikes; rescue efforts impeded by continued bombings.

BEIRUT: Hashem Safieddine, the man widely considered the potential successor to the group's assassinated leader Hassan Nasrallah, has lost contact after Israeli air strikes, according to a senior He

Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Hezbollah's presumed new leader Hashem Safieddine is missing after Israel Defense Forces targeted him in an aerial strike.

An Israeli strike hit Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli for the first time, a Lebanese security source said, after more bombardment hit Beirut's suburbs and Israeli troops sought to make new ground incursions into southern Lebanon.

In a new turn of development, Hashem Safieddine, seen as a potential successor to Salin Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah.

The potential successor to slain Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has been out of contact since Friday, a Lebanese security source said on Saturday, after an Israeli airstrike that is reported to have targeted him.