The Israeli army, which launched for the first time on Sunday, a strike on the Ras al-Nabaa area in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, refused to deny or confirm reports of the killing of Hezbollah spokesman Muhammad Afif during it.
According to what our correspondent reported, the Israeli army is examining the details of the incident, and information about it may be announced later, while the army spokesman refused to comment on the matter.
Marsa Al-Hurra reported that “an Israeli drone targeted a building belonging to the Syrian Baath Party in the Ras Al-Nabaa area,” while the Public Health Emergency Operations Center of the Ministry of Public Health issued a statement announcing that the raid led to the death of one person and the wounding of 3 others, explaining that it was a preliminary toll, Where the work of removing rubble is still continuing.
A security source reported that Afif was present in the building, explaining that his fate “is still unknown.”
While the Secretary-General of the Baath Party, Ali Hijazi, in statements to media close to Hezbollah, referred to the killing of Afif, “who was present by chance in the targeted building.”
The National News Agency said that the targeted building “consists of 7 floors, most of which were destroyed,” while rescue and civil defense teams rushed to the site to rescue those trapped under the rubble of the targeted building.
The raid caused massive destruction and damaged a large number of cars, in addition to a state of panic among the residents of the targeted street, according to the official Lebanese agency.
The strike came after weeks of raids targeting Hezbollah strongholds in Beirut, which were concentrated in the southern suburbs, and other Lebanese areas.
“Targeting from behind.” A statement by the International Emergency Forces in Lebanon suggests the perpetrator
A UNIFIL patrol including French and Finnish peacekeepers was “targeted from behind” with about 40 shots while carrying out its duties in the village of Badiyas on Saturday afternoon, a statement issued by the International Emergency Forces Media Office said on Sunday.
In another development, on Sunday, the Lebanese army announced that one of its soldiers was killed, and 3 others were injured, one of them in critical condition, in an Israeli attack on its site in the town of Al-Mari, Hasbaya District, southern Lebanon.
The Israeli army spokesman, Avichay Adraee, said that the Air Force raided about 50 targets in the southern suburb of Beirut over the past week, explaining that a house that had previously belonged to Hassan Nasrallah (the leader of the organization who was killed in an Israeli raid) was targeted.
The National News Agency also reported that the Israeli army launched a “very violent” raid targeting the town of Khiam in the direction of the Marjayoun Plain in the south of the country.
The Israeli army published a video clip of the visit of Chief of Staff Herzi Halevy during a field tour this week and an assessment of the situation in the Kafr Kila area in southern Lebanon.
Halevy said, according to the army statement: “Hezbollah is paying a heavy price. Their chain of command has collapsed, there are many deaths among their members, and their infrastructure is destroyed.”
Private sources reported to Al-Hurra TV on Sunday that the army “ended its activities in the first line” of the border towns with Lebanon, and began “advancing to the second line since last week.”
The sources added, “The ongoing bombing operations aim to pressure Hezbollah to move away behind the Litani River area.”
In a phone call with Al-Hurra, the army spokesman refused to confirm or deny the news, indicating that the presence of the forces is not being announced at this stage.
It is noteworthy that the Hezbollah group (classified as a terrorist group in the United States and other countries) stated in a statement on Sunday that it clashed with Israeli forces on the eastern outskirts of the town of Shamaa in the south of the country, using “machine weapons and rocket-propelled grenades from zero distance, which led to confirmed casualties.” “.
“Shama” is the deepest point the Israeli army has reached inside Lebanese territory since the start of the ground incursion operations.
