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.

Hezbollah’s Secretary-General, the martyr Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, was laid to rest on Monday in his hometown of Deir Qanoun al-Nahr, southern Lebanon, amid a massive public turnout. The funeral ...

Lebanon’s Hezbollah residence movement announced that Safieddine, who, before his martyrdom, was head of the Executive Council of Hezbollah, will be buried in his hometown of Deir Qanoun al-Naher in ...

Nasrallah shared the funeral with his cousin and successor, Hashem Safieddine, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a Beirut suburb a few days later. Nasrallah was laid to rest Sunday in ...

Safieddine’s name only came to light after many believed that he would possibly succeed Nasrallah, who was assassinated on September 27 in a massive Israeli air strike on southern Beirut. Safieddine ...

Safieddine was born on February 25, 1962, in the town of Chiyah, south of Beirut. He was raised based on the teachings of Islamic values and was influenced by Martyr Sayyed Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and ...

Coffins of former Hezbollah secretary-generals Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine in Beirut, February 22, 2025. (photo credit: Screenshot/Telegram, SECTION 27A COPYRIGHT ACT ...

Hashem Safieddine, who was about 60 ... The war, that left more than 4,000 dead in Lebanon and dozens in Israel, ended on Nov. 27 when a U.S.-brokered ceasefire went into effect.

A trailer carrying the coffins containing the bodies of Hezbollah's former leader Hassan Nasrallah and his cousin and successor Hashem Safieddine drives through the crowd during a funeral ...

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 ...

Images depicting the Hezbollah's former leader Hassan Nasrallah, center left, and his cousin and successor Hashem Safieddine are displayed during their funeral ceremony at the Sports City Stadium ...