Lebanon’s Hezbollah deputy secretary-general, Naim Qassem, will give a speech at noon local time, the group announced in a statement, in the first address by a Hezbollah official since party leader, Hassan Nasrallah was killed.
Qassem’s speech on Monday comes days after Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli strike on Friday.
Israel has in recent days escalated its attacks on Lebanon and the intensifying Israeli bombardment over two weeks has killed a string of top Hezbollah officials.
The Israeli army on Sunday claimed that the strike that killed Nasrallah this week also “eliminated” more than 20 other members. Hezbollah had confirmed in a statement that Ali Karaki, the group’s top commander in south Lebanon, was also killed in the Friday attack.
