Israeli military revealed one of its airstrikes outside Beirut earlier this month killed Hashem Safieddine, a powerful cleric within the party ranks, who was expected to succeed Hassan Nasrallah

Israeli airstrike kills top Hezbollah official near Beirut, leaving group in disarray; Hezbollah threatens future strikes on Netanyahu's home.

The Israeli military said Tuesday that one of its airstrikes outside Beirut earlier this month killed a top Hezbollah official who had been widely expected to be the group’s next leader. There was no immediate confirmation from the militant group about the fate of Hashem Safieddine. Safieddine, a powerful cleric…

The Israeli military said Tuesday a top Hezbollah official who had been widely expected to be the group’s next leader was killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Beirut in early October.Hashem Safieddine, a powerful cleric within the party ranks, was expected to succeed Hassan Nasrallah, one of the group’s founders, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in September. There was no immediate confirmation from the militant group about Safieddine's fate.Earlier in the day, the Israeli military leveled a suburban Beirut building that it said housed Hezbollah “facilities,” sending smoke and debris into the air a few hundred meters (yards) from where a spokesperson for the militant group had just briefed journalists about a weekend drone attack that damaged the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's house.U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Tuesday with Netanyahu as part of his 11th visit to the region since the start of the Israel-Hamas war. Blinken landed hours after Hezbollah launched a barrage of…