Sheikh Naim Qassem Officially Hezbollah Chief

Lebanon’s Hezbollah has named Sheikh Naim Qassem as their Secretary-General, succeeding the movement’s long-running leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah who was assassinated in a targeted Israeli airstrike in Beirut last month.

Hezbollah has appointed its deputy secretary general Naim Qassem as chief on Tuesday to succeed his predecessors Hashem Safieddine and Hassan Nasrallah who were killed in separate Israeli strikes on Lebanon.

Qassem, a longtime deputy to Nasrallah, has served as the group’s acting leader since Nasrallah’s death.

Who’s Naim Qassem?

The 71-year-old is Hezbollah’s deputy secretary-general, and has often been referred to as the movement’s “number two”.

He was born in the Nabatieh governorate’s Kfar Kila, a southern Lebanese village that has suffered through many Israeli attacks, especially since last October.

Qassem was elected deputy secretary-general in 1991, under then-Secretary-General Abbas al-Musawi, who was also assassinated by Israel.

He has played an important public-facing role in Hezbollah over the years, and is also a member of the group’s Shura Council.

He famously published a book called, Hezbollah, the Story from Within, in 2005, which was translated into several languages.

Qassem has long been one of the leading spokesmen for Hezbollah, conducting many interviews with foreign media according to the Al Quds News Network.

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Dr. Marwan Asmar holds a PhD from Leeds University and is a freelance writer specializing on the Middle East. He has worked as a journalist since the early 1990s in Jordan and the Gulf countries, and been widely published, including at Albawaba, Gulf News, Al Ghad, World Press Review and others.

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