According to the UN, their peacekeeping patrol was targeted forty times in south Lebanon, while a new Israeli raid on Gaza killed thirty additional people.
BEIRUT: Mohammed Afif, the media relations officer for the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah, was killed in an unexpected Israeli bombing on the Baath party office in Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, according to a Lebanese security source.
Mohammed Afif, a Hezbollah public relations official, was killed in the attack on Ras al-Nabaa, according to the security source.
According to Lebanon’s official National News Agency, Ali Hijazi, secretary-general of the Baath party’s Lebanese branch, confirmed Hezbollah media officer Afif’s passing.
Hassan Nasrallah, the longtime leader of Hezbollah, was killed in an Israeli strike in September, and Afif was a member of his inner circle.
Afif had been in charge of Hezbollah’s media relations for years, giving local and international journalists information.
When Hezbollah and Israel went to war in 2006, Afif first gained notoriety as the information director for Hezbollah’s television channel Al-Manar.
Afif staged multiple press conferences in the southern suburbs of Beirut following the killing of the Hezbollah head, including one last month where he declared that Hezbollah had launched a drone that was aimed at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s home.
The Israeli army interrupted that news conference by threatening to attack a nearby structure.
“How would threats frighten us if bombs haven’t?” As reporters quickly gathered their mics from the table, Afif spoke defiantly.
In addition to Nasrallah, Hashem Safieddine, who is considered to be the successor to the former head, was among the Hezbollah officials killed in earlier Israeli bombings.
Attacks by UN peacekeepers
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) said that a peacekeeping patrol was fired upon “about 40 times” on Sunday while Israeli strikes persisted in various regions of Lebanon, and that the perpetrator was “likely from non-state actor members.”
In a statement, Unifil stated that no peacekeepers were hurt, although “some patrol vehicles had bullet impacts.” “A group of individuals,” at least one armed, attempted to stop the patrol from passing in south Lebanon on Saturday, but it continued and was later “fired upon about 40 times from behind, likely from non-state actor members,” the statement said.
Gaza kills 30 Palestinians
However, Gaza’s civil defense agency reported that an Israeli airstrike struck a building in the northern part of the Palestinian enclave on Sunday, killing 30 Palestinians, including women and children, and leaving dozens more missing.
According to civil defense official Mahmud Bassal, 30 bodies, including women and children, were recovered from the debris of the five-story residential structure in Beit Lahia following the attack.
