The Hezbollah leadership reported Tuesday that the Shura Council agreed to elect Sheikh Naim Qassem as the new secretary general, succeeding martyred leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah. teleSUR
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00:00The Lebanese Hezbollah resistance group announced this October 29th that its new Secretary General
00:05will be Sheikh Naim Kassem. Kassem was deputy for more than three decades to former leader
00:10Hassan Nasrallah, killed in an Israeli strike. The group vowed to continue Nasrallah's policies
00:16until victory is achieved. Kassem has long been one of Hezbollah's leading spokesmen,
00:20giving interviews to foreign media, even during the period of heightened
00:24confrontation with Israel this year.