Hezbollah spokesman killed in rare Israeli strike on central Beirut, official says

Source: AP

By NATALIE MELZER, FADI TAWIL and BASSEM MROUE
Updated 6:46 AM CST, November 17, 2024

BEIRUT (AP) — The main spokesman for Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group was killed in the first Israeli airstrike on central Beirut in more than a month on Sunday, an official with the militant group told The Associated Press.

Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip had earlier killed 12 people, Palestinian medical officials said.

The Hezbollah official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media, said Mohammed Afif was killed in the strike in central Beirut.

Afif had been especially visible after Israel’s military escalation in September and following the assassination of longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was also killed in an Israeli airstrike.



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