The IDF issued no evacuation order before carrying out the strike that took out Mohammed Afif in central Beirut
Hezbollah spokesman Mohammed Afif has been killed in an Israeli airstrike on Beirut, a member of the Lebanese paramilitary group has told the Associated Press. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has not commented on the strike.
Israeli jets struck central Beirut without warning on Sunday, killing multiple people at a local office of the Syrian Ba’ath Party. Afif was among the dead, a Hezbollah official told AP.
The strike took place near a busy intersection, and an AP reporter on the scene counted at least four bodies in the street afterwards.
The IDF did not respond to requests for comment from Israeli or international media outlets. Neither did the IDF issue an evacuation order before the attack, as it sometimes does before striking densely-populated areas.
Afif ran Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV station for years before taking over as the group’s…
