The Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah regretted the death of its spokesman in an Israeli bombing in Beirut. the death of its spokesman, Mohamed Afifiin a bombing by Israel on Sunday against the headquarters of the Baath Arab Socialist Socialist Party in Beirut, the first time in a month that the Israeli army has directly attacked the Lebanese capital.
Hezbollah praised Afifi as a “leader” in his role as a media spokesman and claimed that it joined as a “martyr” to his comrades and his “father”, Hassan Nasralathe movement’s top political and military leader, who was killed in another bombing in Beirut in September, according to a statement from the group released Sunday night.
The secretary general of the Ba’ath Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party in Lebanon, Ali Yusef Hegazy, confirmed the day before that Afifi was among the dead caused by Israel’s bombing of his formation’s headquarters in Beirut in a television intervention on the Al Mayadin channel.
Israeli attack destroyed the headquarters of the Lebanese branch of the pan-Arab party. which holds power in Syria under Bashar al-Assad.
For its part, the Islamist organization Hamas also mourned the death of Afifi in a statement in which it highlighted his “bold media appearances” from the Dahye, the southern suburbs of Beirut under constant Israeli attacks, and said he was “a strong and defiant voice of resistance that disrupted the (Israeli) occupation.”
The attack took place in the Beirut neighborhood of Ras al Nabaa.
The attack took place in the Beirut neighborhood of Ras al Nabaa, a peripheral area in the south of the capital considered part of its metropolitan area.
On Sunday afternoon another Israeli bombardment again hit the center of the Lebanese capital, in an unusual day with attacks beyond the Dahye, a daily siege target.
More than a year of exchange of fire between Israel and Hezbollah. around the Lebanese border has killed nearly 3,500 people in Lebanon, most of them since the Israeli army stepped up its bombing campaign on September 23. The armed forces estimate that some 2,500 were militiamen of the Shiite group.
On the Israeli side, 76 people have been killed by attacks launched from Lebanon, of which 45 were civilians (6 of them foreigners). In addition, 42 soldiers have been killed in combat in the south of the neighboring country, where they have been engaged in a ground invasion since October 1.