An official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media, said Mohammed Afif was killed in the strike on Sunday.

An Israeli strike on a building in a densely populated district of Beirut on Sunday killed Hezbollah's media relations chief Mohammad Afif, two Lebanese security sources told Reuters, though there was no immediate confirmation from Hezbollah.

A Hezbollah official says the militant group’s main spokesman has been killed in an Israeli strike in central Beirut

An Israeli strike on a densely populated district of Beirut on Sunday killed Hezbollah's media relations chief Mohammad Afif, two Lebanese security sources told Reuters. The strike hit a neighborhood where many people displaced from Beirut's southern suburbs had been seeking refuge.

As Israel’s military wages a renewed offensive in the northern part of the enclave, Al Bureij and Nuseirat in central Gaza came under attack.

Strikes by the Israeli army killed at least 20 people in Gaza on Sunday, the civil defence said, while also hitting a Hezbollah stronghold near Beirut's international airport.Israel has been fighting on two fronts since September,

Israeli airstrikes in Gaza overnight have killed 12 people while police arrested three suspects after flares were fired at the private residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the coastal city of Caesarea.

Netanyahu has faced months of mass protests over his handling of the hostage crisis unleashed by Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack into Israel, which ignited the ongoing war in Gaza.