Hezbollah's top media advisor killed in rare Israeli strike
Mohammad Afif, responsible for Hezbollah's media relations, was killed during an Israeli attack in downtown Beirut on Sunday, according to the Lebanese sources.
1:48 PM EST, November 17, 2024
Afif had been a long-time media advisor to Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, who was killed on September 27 in an Israeli attack on the outskirts of Beirut. Prior to this, he led the Hezbollah-owned television station Al-Manar for several years.
"Israel has rarely hit senior Hezbollah personnel who do not have clear military roles, and its air strikes have mostly targeted Beirut's southern suburbs where Hezbollah has its heaviest presence," noted Reuters.
Further Israeli attacks
The Lebanese army reported on Sunday that an Israeli shelling of a military post in the country's south killed two Lebanese soldiers and wounded two others.
On Saturday, UN forces in southern Lebanon also came under fire. A patrol consisting of French and Finnish soldiers, part of the UNIFIL mission, was fired upon about 40 times near the village of Marrakeh, "likely from non-state actor members," the mission reported on platform X.
