According to senior security officials, Sheikh Naim Kassem, the new Secretary General of Hezbollah, is in Israel's crosshairs and it will work to eliminate him.
In their estimation, his appointment was made under Iranian pressure on the Hezbollah leadership to show that the organization recovers and controls the situation after the severe blows it received from Israel.
Sheikh Naim Kassem was elected by the Shura Council of the Hezbollah organization to the position of Secretary General of Hezbollah in place of Hassan Nasrallah who was killed by Israel about a month ago in a bombing of an underground complex in the Dahiya neighborhood in Beirut.
In fact, after the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah, Sheikh Naim Qassem became the de facto leader of the Hezbollah organization and was in close contact with the Iranian leadership and the “Quds” force commanders.
