Hezbollah has confirmed the death of the head of the movement’s press office, Mohammad Afif, who was killed today in an Israeli strike in a densely populated area of Beirut.
The Lebanese Ministry of Health, for its part, emphasized that four people were killed in the strike in the Ras al-Nambaa district in the heart of Beirut, where Afif was killed.
“The strike by the Israeli enemy in Ras al-Naba left four dead, including a woman, and 14 wounded, including two children,” the ministry said in a more recent report.
Second strike with one dead and 9 injured
At least one person was killed and nine others were injured, two of them seriously, in an attack this evening by the “Israeli enemy” in the central and commercial area of Mar Elias in Beirut, the Lebanese Ministry of Health announced.
“The raid by the Israeli enemy on Mar Elias Street in Beirut resulted in one dead and nine wounded, two of them in critical condition,” the ministry said.
The National News Agency (ANI) reported that the Israeli strike was aimed at the Lebanese Islamist group Jama’a Islamiyya, an Islamist organization allied with Hezbollah and the Palestinian Hamas that participates in the armed struggle against Israel.
“The Beirut strike targeted a Jama’a Islamiyya center in the Mar Elias area,” ANI reported.
However, a member of parliament from the Islamist group, Imad Hut, played down the report. “No center or body linked to the organization is in the area that was bombed and no member of the group was targeted,” Hutt told AFP. A Lebanese security source said the attack targeted an electronics store.
This was the second Israeli strike in the heart of Beirut today. The first targeted a building in a densely populated area of Beirut and killed Hezbollah press office chief Mohammad Afif.
The Israeli military announced today that it has struck more than 200 targets in Lebanon since Saturday morning, where it is shelling specific Hezbollah strongholds.
In the past 36 hours, the army has hit Tyre, a city in southwestern Lebanon, southern districts of Beirut, as well as the center of the Lebanese capital.
According to Lebanon’s health ministry, so far Israeli attacks have killed 29 people and wounded 122 on Saturday, bringing the total since last October to 3,481 dead and 14,786 wounded.
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Interview with Mr. Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary-General of Hezbollah, and Mr. Eyal Hulata, Deputy Director-General for Regional Affairs at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on the recent developments in Lebanon.
