The Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah regretted the death of its spokesman, Mohamed Afifiin an Israeli bombing on Sunday against the headquarters of the Arab Socialist Baath Party in Beirut, the first time in a month that the Israeli Army directly attacks the Lebanese capital.
Hezbollah praised Afifi as a “leader” in his role as media spokesperson and stated that He joined his companions and his “father”, Hasan Nasrallah, as a “martyr”the head of the political and military formation of the movement, died in another bombing in Beirut in September, according to a statement from the group released on Sunday night.
The general secretary of the Arab Socialist Baath Party in Lebanon, Ali Yusef Hegazy, confirmed the day before that Afifi was among the dead caused by the Israeli bombing of his party’s headquarters in Beirut in a television intervention on the Al Mayadin channel.
The Israeli attack destroyed the headquarters of the Lebanese branch of the pan-Arab party who maintains power in Syria with Bashar Al Assad.
For its part, the Islamist organization Hamas also mourned Afifi’s death in a statement in which he highlighted his “bold media appearances” from 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 occurred in the Beirutian neighborhood of Ras al Nabaa
The attack occurred in the Beirutian 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 once again hit the center of the Lebanese capital, on an unusual day with attacks beyond the Dahye, the target of a daily siege.
More than a year of exchange of fire between Israel and Hezbollah around the border with Lebanon has killed almost 3,500 people in this country, the majority since the Israeli Army intensified its bombing campaign on September 23. The armed forces estimate that about 2,500 were militants from the Shiite group.
On the Israeli side, 76 people have died from attacks launched from Lebanon, of which 45 were civilians (6 of them foreigners). In addition, 42 soldiers have died in combat in the south of the neighboring country, where they have been carrying out a ground invasion since last October 1.
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