News - Middle East: Hezbollah has dismissed media reports about the appointment of a new leader for the Lebanese resistance group following the Israeli assassination of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

“Commenting on news circulating on some media outlets about organizational procedures within Hezbollah’s leadership taken after the martyrdom of His Eminence the Secretary General [Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah]…, we are interested in clarifying that the related news is of no importance and can’t be relied upon,” the movement said in a statement.

Any reports about the movement’s structure is rejected unless an official announcement is made by Hezbollah, it noted.

The statement came as the Saudi news TV channel Al-Hadath on Sunday claimed that Hezbollah's Shura Council has chosen Hashem Safieddine as the movement’s new leader.

Nasrallah was martyred on Friday after the Israeli regime bombarded a Beirut suburb using US-provided weapons and munitions.

The assassination came as part of the regime’s escalation against Hezbollah. Hundreds of people have been killed across the country since last Monday.

Israel has been targeting Lebanon since October 2023, when it launched a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

Hezbollah has been responding to the aggression with numerous retaliatory operations, including one with a hypersonic ballistic missile, targeting the occupied Palestinian territories.

The Lebanese resistance movement has vowed to keep up its operations against Israel as long as the Israeli regime continues its Gaza war, which has so far killed more than 41,595 Palestinians, mostly women and children.

Nasrallah was elected Secretary General of Hezbollah in 1992 at the age of 32 after an Israeli helicopter gunship assassinated his predecessor, Sayyed Abbas al-Musawi.

Source: Press TV