Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement announced Tuesday it has chosen deputy head Naim Qassem to succeed Hasan Nasrallah as leader after his death in an Israeli strike on south Beirut last month. “Hezbollah’s (governing) Shura Council agreed to elect… Sheikh Naim Qassem as secretary general of Hezbollah,” the resistance group said in a statement, more than a month after Nasrallah’s killing. Hashem Safieddine, the head of Hezbollah’s executive council, was initially tipped to succeed Nasrallah.
