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An Israeli strike on a building in central Beirut on Sunday killed Hezbollah’s media relations chief Mohammad Afif, two Lebanese security sources told Reuters, though there was no immediate confirmation from the Iran-backed group.
A second, separate strike later on Sunday hit Mar Elias street, another central area rarely targeted by Israeli bombs, targeting a vehicle, Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV reported. The Lebanese health ministry said that strike killed at least two people.
The Israeli military declined to comment in response to questions from Reuters about the strike that killed Afif.
An Israeli military spokesman’s social media account that often publishes evacuation orders for areas about to be bombed showed no such warning before that strike.
Hezbollah and Israel have been trading fire for more than a year, since the group began launching rockets at Israeli military targets on October 8, 2023. That was a day after its Palestinian ally Hamas attacked southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people, Israeli authorities say.
Israel’s campaign in Lebanon has in the last year killed 3,841 people and wounded nearly 15,000 others, the Lebanese health ministry said on Sunday, giving a toll that did not distinguish between civilians and combatants.