Sana'a- Saba:
About a month after the assassination of the Secretary General of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, in a Zionist raid targeting the party's headquarters in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Sheikh Naim Qassem was appointed on Tuesday as the new Secretary General of Hezbollah.
There is no doubt that the election of Sheikh Naim Qassem as Hezbollah's new secretary general at this particular time has very important connotations, most notably confirming the success of the party in restoring its organizational structure and that it is able to fill the void even at the highest levels and under the most difficult circumstances in the history of confrontations with the Zionist enemy entity.
The election of Sheikh Naim Qassem as Hezbollah's Secretary General to succeed the martyred leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who was assassinated by the Zionist-American treacherous forces, and a few of his valiant comrades who fell as martyrs on the path of Jerusalem on the battlefields, confirms the party's readiness for a long war with the Zionist enemy entity.
Today, Hezbollah announced the election of Sheikh Naim Qassem as its Secretary General, succeeding former Secretary General Martyr Hassan Nasrallah, and said in a statement: "Based on faith in God and adherence to Hezbollah's principles and goals. Hezbollah's Shura agreed to elect His Eminence Sheikh Naim Qassem as Secretary-General of Hezbollah."
The party pledged to work "to fulfill the principles of Hezbollah and the goals of its march, and to keep the flame of resistance bright and its banner raised until victory is achieved."
Sheikh Naim Qassem was Hezbollah's deputy secretary-general until the martyrdom of the party's secretary-general, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, in a Zionist assassination operation on September 27.
He was born in February 1953 in Basta al-Tahta area of Beirut. He is married and has six children, four boys and two girls. His father, Muhammad, was born in the town of Kafr Fila in the Iqlim al-Tuffah region of southern Lebanon, and his father, Muhammad, was born in Kafr Fila.
He studied until the higher stages of the Hawziyya seminary, in which he was taught by leading Shiite scholars in Lebanon. This was in conjunction with academic study at the Lebanese University in 1971, from which he obtained a bachelor's degree in chemistry in the French language from the university's Faculty of Education.
Sheikh Qassem obtained a master's degree in chemistry from the Lebanese University in 1977, and then practiced teaching and worked as a teacher for the official secondary grades for six years, as he is a graduate of the Teachers' House of the Education Ministry.
He contributed to the establishment of the "Lebanese Union of Muslim Students" with a group of young people while in university classes, with the aim of student work and communicating Islamic ideas within universities and schools, in the early 1970s.
He joined the Lebanese Resistance Regiments (Amal) when it was founded by Imam Musa al-Sadr in 1974, attended the first meetings to launch the movement in different regions of Lebanon, and assumed the position of deputy central cultural official in Amal.
He rose in the movement's organizational ladder to become responsible for doctrine and culture, as he was one of the secretaries in the movement's leadership council after Imam Sadr disappeared in Libya, and Sayyid Hussein al-Husseini took over the movement's presidency in 1978.
Sheikh Naim Qassem was one of the most prominent participants in the establishment of Hezbollah. He served as a member of the party's Shura Council for three sessions, first in charge of educational and scouting activities in Beirut, then as vice president of the Executive Council, and then as its president.
He has been Hezbollah's deputy secretary-general since Abbas al-Musawi took over as secretary-general in 1991, and continued in the position after the martyrdom of al-Musawi, who was succeeded by martyred secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah in 1992.
Qassem also heads Hezbollah's parliamentary work council, which follows the Loyalty of Resistance bloc and the legislative work of MPs and their political movement.
He is the author of several books, the most prominent of which is Hezbollah, which presents the party's goals, history, and political vision in various matters and has been translated into more than seven languages.
Immediately after Hezbollah's Shura announced Qassem's election, the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas praised Qassem's election as the party's secretary general, calling it a sign of the party's recovery from the targets that were inflicted on its leadership bodies.
In a statement on Tuesday, Hamas emphasized its support for the party's new leadership. It wished it success "in confronting the Zionist enemy and its colonialist ambitions in Lebanon, Palestine and the region."
The Islamic Jihad Movement also blessed this step, saying that it strengthens the solidity of the Islamic resistance in Lebanon and its ability to confront the enemy and thwart its plans. They praised "Sheikh Naim Qassem's competence and his ability to steer the party towards victory at this sensitive stage."
Other Palestinian resistance factions also blessed Hezbollah's election of Sheikh Naim Qassem as its secretary general.
"This election proves that the challenges only make the party and the Islamic resistance more steadfast, determined, willing, strong and faithful," they said.
Observers emphasize that the selection of Sheikh Naim Qassem has several connotations, the most important of which is that Hezbollah "continues to regain its cohesion," as it was able to somehow convene a meeting of the Shura Council and elect Naim Qassem. Hezbollah wanted to say that it had completed the restructuring of its leadership and that there is no vacant position in the party.
Hezbollah also wanted to send a message to the outside world that it has regained control, and to the inside, i.e. to the supportive environment in the political and social sense and to the fighters on the fronts that the party has regained unity of command and control according to observers.
It is noteworthy that the announcement of Sheikh Qassem's election comes at a sensitive stage as the United States intensifies its efforts to reach a settlement to achieve a ceasefire and establish a diplomatic solution, while Hezbollah intensifies its missile operations on the southern border and in the Zionist depths.
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