Hezbollah spokesman; Mohammed Afif was killed today in an Israeli strike on a densely populated area of Beirut, the Associated Press reported, citing a representative of the pro-Iranian movement.
The first attack in the central part of the Lebanese capital in more than a month was aimed at the Ras an Nabaa district, where many people displaced by Israeli bombardment in the southern suburbs of the city, a bastion of Hezbollah, have sought refuge.
Security forces said a building that housed the offices of the Lebanese branch of the Syrian Baath Party was hit, and the party's head for Lebanon, Ali Hijazi, told Lebanese Al Jadid TV. that Afif was in the building.
According to data from the Lebanese Ministry of Health, one person was killed and three were injured in the strike.
Afif was a long-time media adviser to the former leader of “Hezbollah” Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the southern suburbs of Beirut on September 27. For several years, he headed the Al-Manar organization's television channel before heading the Iran-backed group's media relations unit, Reuters recalls.
Afif gained popularity after the escalation of tensions between Israel and “Hezbollah” at the end of September, and he himself gave several press conferences amid the destruction caused by Israeli bombing in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital.
On November 11, in one of his last comments, Afif told journalists that Israeli troops are not capable of occupying any territory in Lebanon, and “Hezbollah” has enough weapons and ammunition to wage a “long war”.