Israel Defense "No Hezbollah Leader...It seems that the successor has also been removed."

Hashim Safiedin, who was considered the next head of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, is likely dead, Israel's defense minister says.

According to the Times of Israel on the 8th local time, Minister Yoav Galant visited the Israeli military's Northern Command and said, "Hezbollah is a leaderless organization," adding, "It seems that successors have been removed following Nasrallah."

"A year after the war, Hamas was disbanded, and Hezbollah became an injured organization," Galant said. "If the smoke clears in Lebanon, Iran will realize that it has lost its biggest asset."

Israeli forces, which are on the offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon, killed Hezbollah head Hasan Nasrallah on the 27th of last month in a targeted airstrike in the Dahiye area outside the Lebanese capital Beirut.

Since then, it has been observed that Safiedin, Nasrallah's cousin and Hezbollah's executive chairman, is likely to follow, but Safiedin has been out of touch since further Israeli airstrikes on the 3rd.

Safiedin, one of Hezbollah's leaders, is known to be close to Iran, which leads the axis of resistance, an anti-American and anti-Israel alliance in the Middle East, including Hezbollah.

To date, Hezbollah has never officially announced Safiedin as the head of its organization.