Hezbollah has chosen a new leader, but the Israeli Defense Minister has no doubt that this will not last long.

For more than 30 years, Naim Qassem served as Hezbollah's deputy leader. He himself will take over the new leadership of this terrorist group.

The Hezbollah Shura Council's decision to accept Qassem for the new position of secretary general was confirmed, Reuters reported. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant calls the appointment temporary and attaches a photo of the new leader on the social network X (formerly Twitter).

Naim Qassem becomes Hezbollah's deputy leader in 1991, following the death of then-leader Abbas al-Musawi in an Israeli attack in 1992. He remained in his position during the rise of Nasrallah and has long acted as one of the organization's leading speakers, giving interviews to foreign media.

The Israeli government has expressed the view that Qassem's tenure as secretary general could be the shortest in Hezbollah's history if he follows in the footsteps of his predecessors Nasrallah and Safi al-Din. This became known from the official Arab account of the Israeli government on the social network X.