Lebanon’s Hezbollah Tuesday elected its deputy secretary general Naim Qassem to succeed slain head Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday, news agency Reuters reported. Considered one of the foundational religious scholars of the Lebanese group, Qassem, according to AlJazeera, oversaw part of Hezbollah’s educational network and has also been involved in overseeing its parliamentary activities. Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the southern edges of Beirut last month.
The same day, an Israeli strike on a five-story building where displaced Palestinians were sheltering in the northern Gaza Strip killed at least 60 people, most of whom were women and children. In other news, United States spokesperson Matthew Miller expressed the administration’s ‘deep concern’ as Israel passed two laws on Monday that could threaten the work of the main United Nations (UN) agency providing aid to people in Gaza, news agency AP reported.
