An Israel Air Force strike on a densely populated district of Beirut on Sunday killed Hezbollah's media relations chief Mohammad Afif, two Lebanese security sources told Reuters on Sunday.
Army Radio reported that the strike targeted Hassan Nasrallah's home in Beirut's Dahiyeh neighborhood.
A failed assassination attempt was carried out on this house in 2006. Since then, the house has been rebuilt and has been used for Hezbollah terror infrastructure, according to Army Radio.
Before the strike, IDF Arab Media Spokesperson Avichay Adraee posted on X/Twitter a map of targets in southern Beirut that Israel was preparing to target.
The spokesperson's post explicitly pertained to the Haret Hreik and Burj al-Barajneh areas and warned local residents to immediately evacuate at least 500 meters from the buildings in question.
According to Reuters, the Israeli strike hit the Ras al-Nabaa neighborhood of Beirut, which, according to the news agency, did not receive evacuation orders.
In late October, Afif stated that it would "not be long before we have Israeli captives," adding that, at the time, Hezbollah did not hold any Israeli captives but that the terror organization "came close."
Earlier that month, Afif had vowed that Hezbollah was "only in the first round" as Israeli ground troops engaged the terror organization in southern Lebanon.