Hezbollah's media relations chief Mohammad Afif was killed in an Israeli strike on a building in the densely populated district of Ras Al-Nabaa in Beirut on Sunday (Nov 17), according to security sources.
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00:00Israeli forces continued with their airstrikes on Hezbollah bases in the southern suburbs
00:10of Beirut for six consecutive days on Sunday.
00:15A rocket also struck a building in the Ras al-Nabar neighborhood in central Beirut, killing
00:21Hezbollah's media relations chief Mohamed Afif and wounding several others.
00:26Reports quoted security sources as saying the site was where the office of the Ba'ath
00:31party was located, and Afif was in the building.
00:35However, there was no immediate confirmation from Hezbollah, and the Israeli military declined
00:40to comment, in response to questions from Reuters.
00:44The Ras al-Nabar neighborhood is where many people displaced from Beirut's southern
00:49suburbs had been seeking refuge.
00:53Israel and Hezbollah have been trading fire for more than a year now, but their exchanges
00:58have escalated in recent months.
01:01Israeli forces killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in an airstrike in Dahye on September
01:0727.