According to the Lebanon ministry cited by AFP, Israeli attacks on the Tyr area of Lebanon resulted in at least 11 fatalities and 48 injuries.
The attacks in the Tyr region follow weeks of previous Israeli military actions in the region. As previously reported by Al Jazeera, the strikes in late October injured 16 people and damaged a number of cultural monuments.
These latest assaults come after an Israeli bombing in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, on Sunday that killed Mohammed Afif, the head of Hezbollah’s public relations department, according to the Times of Israel.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) also verified the killing of “Chief Propagandist and Spokesperson of Hezbollah, Mohammed Afif” in a post on the social networking site X.
According to the IDF, “Afif was a senior Hezbollah military operative, in contact with senior officials and directly involved in advancing and executing Hezbollah’s terrorist activities against Israel”.
IDF also noted that “Messages broadcasted by Afif to the Lebanese media glorified and incited terrorist activities against Israel, and he was responsible for numerous psychological terror operations against the Israeli public”.
“Afif’s impact on the terrorist organization proves that he was directly involved in Hezbollah’s terrorist activity against the State of Israel”, the IDF further added.
The strikes in Tyr and the death of the Hezbollah spokesperson come in the wake of the attack at Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s home on Sunday.
Three suspects were arrested for throwing flares at Netanyahu’s residence. Earlier in October, Netanyahu’s private residence was targeted by a Hezbollah drone. Images published in Israeli media showed cracks in a bedroom window where the drone struck but failed to penetrate.
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Source: Business Standard
