Israeli strike destroys Beirut building, kills Hezbollah media chief

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Hezbollah's media relations chief Mohammad Afif was killed in an Israeli strike on a building in the densely populated district of Ras Al-Nabaa in Beirut on Sunday (Nov 17), according to security sources.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Israeli forces continued with their airstrikes on Hezbollah bases in the southern suburbs

00:10of Beirut for six consecutive days on Sunday.

00:15A rocket also struck a building in the Ras al-Nabar neighborhood in central Beirut, killing

00:21Hezbollah's media relations chief Mohamed Afif and wounding several others.

00:26Reports quoted security sources as saying the site was where the office of the Ba'ath

00:31party was located, and Afif was in the building.

00:35However, there was no immediate confirmation from Hezbollah, and the Israeli military declined

00:40to comment, in response to questions from Reuters.

00:44The Ras al-Nabar neighborhood is where many people displaced from Beirut's southern

00:49suburbs had been seeking refuge.

00:53Israel and Hezbollah have been trading fire for more than a year now, but their exchanges

00:58have escalated in recent months.

01:01Israeli forces killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in an airstrike in Dahye on September

01:0727.

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