The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has said that Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Beirut earlier this month. Hezbollah's executive council's head Safieddine was presumed to be the successor of Hassan Nasrallah after he was killed in September, The Times of Israel reported. According to IDF, Hashem was the cousin of Hassan Nasrallah.

According to Israeli military, Safieddine was killed alongside Hussein Ali Hazima, the Commander of Hezbollah's Intelligence Headquarters during the strike on October 4. The airstrike had targeted Hezbollah's underground intelligence headquarters in Beirut, as per the Israeli army was "in the heart of a civilian population" in the Lebanese capital's southern suburb, known as Dahiyeh.