The Lebanese militant group confirmed that Hezbollah’s media chief Mohammed Afif has been killed in an Israeli strike in central Beirut. A strike hit the headquarters of the Baath political party in the densely populated Ras al-Naba neighbourhood on Sunday, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported. The country’s health ministry said four people were killed, but did not name the victims. Afif, one of the few remaining public faces of the group, was last seen on Monday, when he gave a press conference in Beirut’s southern suburbs, where the group is based. Hezbollah confirmed the death on Sunday evening, several hours after it was first reported. According to the National News Agency, most of the headquarters of the Lebanese branch of the Syrian Baath party was destroyed in the strike, as rescue and civil defence teams rushed to aid a number of people trapped under the rubble. The health ministry said 14 people were injured as well as the four killed.
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