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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Bassem Mroue

Hezbollah chief who was killed days after taking up post laid to rest in south Lebanon hometown

Lebanon Hezbollah Funeral - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

The late leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group who was killed in an Israeli airstrike days after he took the post was laid to rest in his southern hometown Monday, a day after his cousin and predecessor was buried in Beirut.

Hashem Safieddine, who was about 60, was killed in early October in a series of Israeli airstrikes in a southern suburb of Beirut at the height of the Israel-Hezbollah war. He was killed days after his cousin and predecessor Hassan Nasrallah was killed in Israeli airstrikes south of Beirut.

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