"Hezbollah successor Safiedin lost contact"...death observation

Hashem Safiedin, who has been expected to succeed Hasan Nasrallah, the head of Lebanon's armed faction Hezbollah, has been out of touch since Israeli airstrikes, Reuters reported on the 5th local time.

Multiple Lebanese security sources said they had not been able to reach Safiedin since the Israeli bombing.

Among them, a source said local rescue teams were searching the bombing site but had yet to find Safiedin.

The Israeli military said it bombed Hezbollah's intelligence headquarters in the Lebanese capital Beirut the day before, but did not disclose who was targeted.

Arab media Sky News Arabia reported a Lebanese official's statement that "there is zero possibility that Safiedin is alive," and some Israeli media have also weighed in on the possibility of Safiedin's death, but no official confirmation has been made yet.

Safiedin is Nasrallah's cousin, who organized the executive committee shortly after Nasrallah became Hezbollah's secretary general in 1992 and has been dedicated to Hezbollah's training system, foreign investment and other financial sectors for more than 30 years.