Originally Posted by Trojan
From: CNN October 29, 2024
Hezbollah names a new leader to replace Nasrallah

Hezbollah has named Shiite cleric Naim Qassem as leader, over a month after his predecessor Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike.

Qassem is currently living in Tehran, Iran, after fleeing Lebanon on a plane with the country’s foreign minister on October 5, 2024
UAE-based Erem News outlet reports -- at least Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar stayed put in Gaza

Iran President Masoud Pezeshkian’s website said,
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Qassem’s appointment would “strengthen the will of the resistance”