Israel killed Hezbollah’s chief spokesman in a rare central Beirut airstrike. An anonymous Hezbollah official confirmed the death of Mohammed Afif to the Associated Press, while two Lebanese security sources confirmed it to Reuters.

Mohammed Afif killed in first Israeli airstrike on central Beirut in more than a month, official says. Israeli military reports officer and soldier killed in battle in northern Gaza 17:09 The Israeli military said on Sunday that an officer and a soldier from the Nachshon Regiment (90),

The Hezbollah militant group has a strong presence in central Beirut, known as the Dahiyeh, and the strikes came as Lebanese officials are considering a U.S.-brokered cease-fire proposal.

Mohammed Afif, the spokesperson for Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group was killed in an Israeli airstrike on central Beirut on Sunday.

Afif for years had been responsible for Hezbollah’s media relations, and provided information to local and foreign journalists under the cover of anonymity

Mohammed Afif, the spokesperson and media relations chief for Hezbollah, was reportedly killed on Sunday in an Israeli airstrike targeting central Beirut, according to Lebanese security sources.

The attack came as Israel’s military has been pounding an area just outside the Lebanese capital with some of the heaviest waves of bombardment in months.

The Hezbollah official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media, said Mohammed Afif was killed in the strike in central Beirut.