Israel on Thursday claimed its military killed Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem in massive airstrikes carried out in Lebanon’s Beirut on Wednesday night. The announcement was made in a post on X by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) along with the killing of Qassem’s personal secretaryย Ali Yusuf Kharshi, in the same wave of attacks.
“The IDF eliminated Na’im Qassem, Deputy Secretary-General of the terror organisation Hezbollah, in Beirut: A series of terror infrastructures were attacked last night in southern Lebanon,” the IDF wrote in the post.
“The IDF struck and eliminated yesterday Ali Yusuf Kharshi, the personal secretary of the Secretary-General of the terror organisation Hezbollah, and nephew of Na’im Qassem, in the Beirut area,” it added.