Israel’s Defense Minister, Yoav Gallant, has stressed that the Lebanese Shiite militia party Hezbollah is a “leaderless” group after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) killed Hasan Nasrallah and also because his successor at the head of the Islamist organization “has probably also been eliminated.
“Hezbollah is an organization without a leader, Nasrallah was eliminated, his replacement was probably also eliminated,” Gallant said during a visit to the Northern Command troops, to whom he acknowledged that this situation could have “a dramatic effect” on the war, then, in the militia “there is no one to make the decisions.”
Nasrallah died at the end of September, the victim of a “targeted bombing” by the IDF against a residential neighborhood in Beirut, where Hezbollah’s “headquarters” were located. Since then, Nasrallah’s cousin, Hashem Safiedin, has been suggested as a possible new leader of the Shiite group, although Gallant has not mentioned him directly.
Thus, the Minister of Defense has taken advantage of his meeting with troops to highlight the operations that the Israeli Army is carrying out in Lebanon against Hezbollah, and has asserted that the entire Middle East region is expectant, according to the newspaper. ‘The Times of Israel’.
“When the smoke from Lebanon clears, Iran will realize that they have lost their most valuable asset, which is Hezbollah,” Gallant stressed, thus hinting at a possible total elimination of the Islamist group, which enjoys the direct support of Tehran. The Iranian regime has gone so far as to attack Israel in solidarity with Lebanon and Gaza.
The conflict in the Middle East broke out more than a year ago, when Hamas launched an unprecedented offensive against Israel that left almost 1,200 dead, 240 hostages and was the trigger for an Israeli military operation against the Gaza Strip that to this day leaves Already almost 42,000 Palestinians dead.
The day after Hamas attacked southern Israel, Hezbollah launched missiles into the north of the country across the Lebanese border. Israel has responded for a year and in mid-September it intensified its operations with a series of bombings, including in Beirut, which have dismembered the Islamist militia.