Israeli strike on Beirut kills Hezbollah media head

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******** strike on Beirut ****** Hezbollah media head

An ******** strike on a building in a densely populated district of Beirut has ******* Hezbollah’s media relations chief Mohammad Afif, two Lebanese security sources have told Reuters, though there was no immediate confirmation from Hezbollah.

The ******** military have declined to comment. There was no evacuation order for the area published on the ******** military spokesperson’s account on social media platform X before the strike.

The strike hit the Ras al-Nabaa neighbourhood where many people displaced from Beirut’s southern suburbs by the ******** bombardment had been seeking refuge.

The security sources said it struck a building where the offices of the Ba’ath Party are located, and the head of the party in Lebanon, Ali Hijazi, told Lebanese broadcaster Al-Jadeed that Afif was in the building.

The broadcaster later also said Afif had been *******. It showed footage of a building whose upper floors had collapsed onto the first storey, with civil defence workers at the scene.

Afif was a long-time media advisor to Hezbollah’s former secretary general Hassan Nasrallah, who was ******* in an ******** air ******* on the southern suburbs of Beirut on September 27.

He managed Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television station for several years before taking over the Iran-backed group’s media relations office.

Hezbollah and ******* have been trading ***** for more than a year, since Hezbollah began launching rockets at ******** military targets on October 8, 2023, a day after its ************ ally ****** carried out a deadly ******* on southern *******.

In late September, ******* dramatically escalated and expanded its military campaign in Lebanon, heavily ******** the country’s south, east and the southern suburbs of Beirut alongside ground incursions along the border.

Afif hosted several press conferences for journalists amid the rubble in the southern suburbs of the capital. In his most recent comments to reporters on November 11, he said ******** troops had been unable to occupy any territory in Lebanon and Hezbollah had enough weapons and supplies to ****** a “long war”.

The Lebanese health ministry said the strike ******* one and injured three.

Ambulances could be heard rushing to the scene, and bursts of gunfire rang out to prevent crowds of people from approaching the location.

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