He did not give further details.

Hashem Safieddine, a top Hezbollah official was widely expected to succeed Nasrallah.

“Hezbollah is an organisation without a head. Nasrallah was eliminated, his replacement was probably also eliminated,” Gallant told officers at the military’s northern command centre, in a brief video segment distributed by the military. “There’s no one to make decisions, no one to act,” he said.

Safieddine had been running Hezbollah alongside its deputy secretary-general Naim Qassem since Nasrallah’s assassination and was expected to be formally elected as its next secretary-general, although no official announcement had yet been made.

Qassem said in a televised statement on Tuesday that the group will elect a new secretary-general and will announce it once it has been done.