Mohammed Afif had been especially visible after all-out war erupted between Israel and Hezbollah in September.
A rare Israeli strike in central Beirut has killed the Hezbollah militant group’s chief spokesman, while another in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya killed at least 30 people, the director of a hospital there said.
Israel also bombed several buildings in Beirut’s southern suburbs, where Hezbollah has long been headquartered, after warning people to evacuate.The strikes occurred as Lebanese officials consider a United States-led ceasefire proposal.There was no Israeli evacuation warning before the strike near a busy intersection in central Beirut that killed Afif. An AP photographer there saw four bodies and four wounded people.
Earlier Israel’s military said mobile artillery batteries had crossed into Lebanon and began attacking Hezbollah targets, the first time artillery was launched within Lebanese territory. Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency service said a teenager suffered blast injuries in Upper Galilee.Hosam Abu Safiya, director of the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya, said there were dozens of wounded after the Israeli strike there, and others likely were still under the rubble.
A woman, Umm Hamza, said the bombing had escalated overnight. “It’s cold and we don’t know where to go,” she said.
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