Al-Monitor
Naim Qassem, 71, was one of Hezbollah’s founders in 1982 and had been the party’s deputy secretary general since 1991, before being thrust into the top job by Israel’s killing of Hassan Nasrallah.Qassem, a member of the group’s governing Shura Council, had long operated in the shadow of Nasrallah…
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Naim Qassem, Hezbollah veteran long in slain predecessor’s shadow
Naim Qassem, 71, was one of Hezbollah’s founders in 1982 and had been the party’s deputy secretary general since 1991, before being thrust into the top job by Israel’s killing of Hassan Nasrallah.Qassem, a member of the group’s governing Shura Council, had long operated in the shadow of Nasrallah…