BREAKING | Hezbollah announces the passing of the head of its Executive Council, Sayyed Hashem Safieddine.

Statement issued by Hezbollah:

Among the believers are men true to what they promised Allah. Among them is he who has fulfilled his vow [to the death], and among them is he who awaits [his chance], and they did not alter [the terms of their commitment] by any alteration.
God Almighty is true

We mourn to the nation of martyrs and mujahideen, the nation of resistance and victory, a great leader and a great martyr on the path to Jerusalem, the head of the Executive Council of Hezbollah, His Eminence the scholar Sayyed Hashem Safi al-Din, may God Almighty be pleased with him. He departed to his Lord with the best of his mujahideen brothers, satisfied, content, patient and hopeful, in a criminal, aggressive Zionist raid.

Mr. Hashem joined his brother, our most noble and precious martyr, His Eminence the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. He was a good brother who consoled his brother, and he was to him as Abu al-Fadl al-Abbas, peace be upon him, was to his brother Imam al-Hussein, peace be upon him. He was his brother, his support, the bearer of his banner, the source of his trust, his reliance in hardships and his guarantor in difficulties. He continued as the Badris continued, supporting the religion of God, pious, righteous, pioneering, managing, directing, leader and martyr.

His Eminence Sayyed Hashem Safi al-Din devoted most of his life to serving Hezbollah, the Islamic Resistance, and its society. Over the long years of his honorable life, he responsibly and competently managed the Executive Council, its various institutions, and its units operating in various fields, and everything related to the work of the resistance, close to its fighters, close to its people, and loving the families of its martyrs until God granted him the dignity of a martyr in the convoy of martyrs of the luminous Karbala.

We offer our condolences to the Master of the Age and Time, may God Almighty hasten his noble reappearance, to His Eminence the Guardian of the Muslims, may God protect him, to the blessed seminaries throughout the Islamic world, to his brothers, the Mujahideen in the Islamic Resistance, and to his honorable, patient and steadfast family. We ask God Almighty to bestow upon them beautiful patience and reward in this world and the hereafter.
We pledge to our great martyr and his martyr brothers to continue the path of resistance and jihad until achieving its goals of freedom and victory.