{"id":3760,"date":"2024-10-29T13:00:40","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T09:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/sheikh-naim-qassem-elected-new-chief-of-lebanons-hezbollah\/"},"modified":"2024-10-29T13:00:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T09:30:40","slug":"sheikh-naim-qassem-elected-new-chief-of-lebanons-hezbollah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/sheikh-naim-qassem-elected-new-chief-of-lebanons-hezbollah\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheikh Naim Qassem elected new chief of Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.mehrnews.com\/d\/2024\/10\/08\/4\/5197489.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">Hezbollah\u2019s Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem has been\u00a0elected as the new chief of the Lebanese resistance movement after his predecessor Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was martyred in an Israeli strike\u00a0on southern Beirut last month.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Hezbollah&#8217;s Shura Council, the group&#8217;s central decision-making body, appointed the 60-year-old cleric to the post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on faith in Allah Almighty\u2026, adherence to Hezbollah\u2019s principles and goals, and following the established procedure for the election of the Secretary-General, Hezbollah\u2019s Shura Council has elected His Eminence Sheikh Naim Qassem as Secretary-General of Hezbollah, entrusting him with the blessed banner on this journey. We pray to the Almighty to grant him success in this honorable mission of leading Hezbollah and its Islamic resistance,\u201d the council said in a statement, Press TV reported.<\/p>\n<p>The statement also pledged to the fallen victims, fighters of the Islamic resistance as well as well the steadfast and loyal Lebanese nation that Hezbollah will stand by its principles, goals and path to keep the flame of resistance alive and its banner held high until final victory.<\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Qassem is a veteran figure in Hezbollah, having served as deputy secretary general of the Lebanese resistance group since 1991.<\/p>\n<p>He was appointed deputy secretary general under Hezbollah\u2019s late secretary general, Abbas al-Musawi, who was killed by an Israeli helicopter attack in 1992, and remained in the role when Nasrallah became leader.<\/p>\n<p>His political activism began in the Lebanese Amal Movement, founded in 1974. He left Amal in 1979, in the wake of Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolution, which shaped the political thinking of many young Lebanese activists.<\/p>\n<p>He took part in meetings that led to the formation of Hezbollah in 1982.<\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Qassem has long been one of the leading spokesmen for Hezbollah, conducting many interviews with foreign media.<\/p>\n<p>He was born in 1953 in Beirut\u2019s Basta Tahta district, and his family originally hails from Kfar Fila town in Lebanon\u2019s southern Nabatieh province.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/505604\/Sheikh-Naim-Qassem-elected-new-chief-of-Lebanon-s-Hezbollah\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hezbollah\u2019s Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem has been\u00a0elected as the new chief of the Lebanese resistance movement after his predecessor Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was martyred in an Israeli strike\u00a0on southern Beirut last month. On Tuesday, Hezbollah&#8217;s Shura Council, the group&#8217;s central decision-making body, appointed the 60-year-old cleric to the post. \u201cBased on faith in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1155,28,1156,1154],"class_list":["post-3760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-hezbollah-secretary-general-sayyed-hassan-nasrallah","tag-international","tag-new-chief","tag-sheikh-naim-qassem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}