Qassem’s speech, which lasted 19 minutes and was broadcast on television, was the first by a senior Hezbollah leader since the killing NasrallahFriday, in an air strike.
Here are some facts about Qasim, according to what Reuters reported:
- He is a veteran figure in the group and has served as Deputy Secretary-General since 1991.
- He was appointed Deputy Secretary-General during the era of the former Secretary-General of Hezbollah Abbas Al Musawiwho was killed in an Israeli helicopter attack in 1992, remained in the position when Nasrallah assumed leadership of the group.
- He began his political activity in Amal Movement Lebanese, which was founded in 1974.
- Amal left in 1979, in the wake Iranian revolutionwhich shaped the political thought of many young Lebanese Shiite activists.
- Participated in the meetings that led to the formation Hezbollah.
- He has long been one of Hezbollah’s prominent spokesmen and has given numerous interviews to foreign media.
- When fighting raged across the border with Israel During the war in GazaHe said in June that Hezbollah’s decision was not to expand the scope of the war but would fight it if it was imposed on it.
- He was general coordinator of Hezbollah’s parliamentary election campaigns since the group ran for the first time in 1992.
- He was born in 1953 in the Basta al-Tahta area Beirut His family’s origins go back to Kfarfila, in southern Lebanon, which has a Shiite majority, and he is married with 6 children.
