Hezbollah media spokesman assassinated in Israeli strike: report

An Israeli airstrike targeting the office of Syria’s Ba’ath Party in central Beirut on Sunday noon has killed Hezbollah Media Chief Mohammad Afif, local TV channel al-Jadeed reported

The strike — in the Ras al-Nabaa area near Sodeco Square — targeted a building containing the headquarters of the Lebanese branch of the Baath Party that rules Syria. A Baath member who survived the strike said the building also contained an apartment housing displaced Lebanese.