An Israeli airstrike on the office of Syria’s Baath party in Lebanon’s capital Beirut has killed the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah's Media Relations Officer, Mohammad Afif.
On Sunday night, Hezbollah officially confirmed that its media relations chief was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike on central Beirut.
Hezbollah praised Afif’s courage in confronting the Israeli media machine and conveying the voice of the resistance and its positions.
The movement said Afif clearly outlined the features of the ongoing war by his live appearances in Beirut’s southern suburbs which have been the focal point of Israeli bombardment of the Lebanese capital.
Hezbollah added that Afif’s brave positions instilled fear in the hearts of the enemy.
Earlier, Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA) reported that the Israeli raid struck the Ba'ath party’s building in the central Beirut district of Ras Al-Naba'a on Sunday, adding that the strike was an attempt to assassinate the leader of the resistance media front.
According to Baath Secretary-General Ali Hijazi, Afif was having a meeting in the Baath Party headquarters when Israel carried out the attack.
"Afif did not fight with weapons and did not lead a military unit in Hezbollah. Rather, he led a media unit," he said.
Reuters, Sky News, Al Jazeera and several Henrew-language media reported that Afif was killed in the Israeli strike.