Hezbollah media chief killed in Israeli airstrike on Beirut
Mohammad Afif, responsible for Hezbollah's media relations, was killed during an Israeli attack in central Beirut on Sunday, Reuters reported.
Afif had been a long-time media advisor to Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, who was killed on 27 September in an Israeli attack on the suburbs of Beirut. Previously, he had led Hezbollah's 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 shelling
The Lebanese army reported on Sunday that two of its soldiers were killed and two others injured in an Israeli shelling of a military post in the south of the country.
On Saturday, UN forces in southern Lebanon also came under fire. A patrol made up of French and Finnish soldiers, part of the UNIFIL mission, was fired upon approximately 40 times near the village of Marrakeh, "likely from non-state actor members," the mission stated on platform X.
