Mohammed Afif killed in first Israeli airstrike on central Beirut in more than a month, official says
The United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon says a patrol was fired upon earlier on Sunday.
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) said on Sunday that a peacekeeping patrol was shot at “about 40 times” a day earlier, with the culprit “likely from non-state actor members”.
Afif joined Hezbollah at a young age and first came to prominence as information director for Hezbollah’s television channel Al-Manar when the group and Israel went to war in 2006.
After Nasrallah’s assassination, Afif had held several press conferences in Beirut’s southern suburbs, including one last month in which he announced Hezbollah had launched a drone targeting the residence of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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