Israeli Airstrike Kills Hezbollah Spokesman
Mahammad Afif. X/ @JawadAbubakar7
November 18, 2024 Hour: 7:02 am
Mohammad Afif joined Hezbollah in the 1980s and served as a media advisor to the group’s late leader, Hassan Nasrallah.
On Sunday, Israel’s military claimed responsibility for an airstrike in central Beirut that killed Hezbollah’s media relations chief Mohammad Afif.
RELATED:
Ceasefire or Conflict: Lebanon’s Dilemma Before Possible Blackmail
The midday strike targeted a multi-story building in the Ras al-Nabaa district without prior evacuation warnings, killing at least four people, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.
Afif joined Hezbollah in the 1980s and served as a media advisor to the group’s late leader, Hassan Nasrallah, who was assassinated by Israel in late September.
The Israeli occupation army described the attack as “an intelligence-based strike,” alleging that Afif “directed Hezbollah operatives to gather field footage for use in propaganda and psychological warfare.”
On Sunday night, two people were killed and 22 others injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting Mar Elias, a densely-populated neighborhood in Beirut. Channel Al-Jadeed reported that the airstrike targeted Hezbollah’s head of operations on the southern front, Mahmoud Madi, but his fate remains unknown.
The airstrike targeted Madi Technology, an electronics shop owned by Hassan Madi, the brother of Mahmoud Madi. The explosion of electronic devices at the shop following the airstrike triggered a massive fire. Civil defense teams quickly arrived on the scene to extinguish the fire, while ambulances were dispatched to transport the injured to the hospital.
Since Sept. 23, the Israeli army has intensified airstrikes on Lebanon in an escalation of conflict with Hezbollah. In early October, Israel launched a ground operation across its northern border into Lebanon
teleSUR/ JF Source: Xinhua
