Lebanon's Hezbollah movement has announced that Naim Qasim has been elected secretary general to replace its former leader, Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed by Israel. He leads the movement from Tehran, the capital of Iran.

The Hezbollah movement in Lebanon has rejected the appointment of the chairman of the executive council of the movement, Hashim Safiyeddin, to the post of secretary general after the death of Hassan Nasrallah. Harakat urged not to believe such reports until the official announcement of the Hezbollah leadership.

The Shura Council (the main governing body) of the Hezbollah group in Lebanon has elected Hashim Safi al-Din as the organization's new secretary general. Safi al-Din is the cousin of the movement's former leader Hassan Nasrallah and the son-in-law of Qasem Soleimani, the former commander of Iran's Quds Force.

According to the report, the general secretary of the Hezbollah movement, Hasan Nasrullah, was killed a day ago as a result of the Israeli army's airstrikes in the southern areas of Beirut.

The Israeli army announced that Hassan Nasrullah was killed as a result of an airstrike on the underground headquarters of Hezbollah in the Dahiya district of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, based on highly accurate intelligence. Hezbollah sources said he was not killed, but wounded.