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Mohammad Afif was a long-time media advisor to Hezbollah’s former secretary basic Hassan Nasrallah.
A Hezbollah official says an Israeli strike in central Beirut has killed the group’s most important spokesman, Mohammad Afif.
The strike on a constructing in a densely populated district of the Lebanese capital on Sunday additionally injured three others, officers stated. There was no evacuation order for the world printed on the Israeli army spokesperson’s account on social media platform X earlier than the strike.
The strike hit the Ras al-Nabaa neighborhood the place many individuals displaced from Beirut’s southern suburbs by the Israeli bombardment had been in search of refuge.
Afif was Hezbollah’s high media relations officer, and the purpose of contact for the organisation identified amongst many journalists in Beirut.
Earlier than taking up the Iran-backed group’s media relations workplace, he managed Hezbollah’s Al-Manar tv station for a number of years.
“Clearly, this can be a continuation of the Israeli coverage to go after not solely the army wing of Hezbollah but additionally officers throughout the administrative facet of the organisation”, stated Al Jazeera’s Dorsa Jabbari. “What Israel is attempting to is diminish the teams’ capabilities on all fronts: Financial, social, political, army,” she added.
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