Hezbollah spokesperson Mohamed Afifiis one of the deaths caused by Israeli bombing of the headquarters of the Arab socialist Baath Party in Lebanon, as reported by the secretary general of the political group Ali Yusef Hegazy.
In a televised intervention on the Al Mayadin channel, after confirming via social networks that the headquarters of the party, the Lebanese branch of the pan-Arab party which maintains power in Syria with Bashar Al Assad, had been destroyed by an Israeli attack. Hegazy reported that Afifi was in the building and died. The Lebanese Shiite group has not yet commented on the matter.
In this sense, Hegazy indicated that the attack against the party headquarters and Afifi occurred in “continuing threats framework” against the group since the beginning of ” the Israeli aggression ” against Lebanon. ” What is seeks from these attacks to silence the voice of resistance in the media and at the political levelwell, that exposes them… Afifi did not fight with weapons nor did he lead a military unit of Hezbollah, but rather a media unit,” Hegazy said.
The attack occurred in the Beirut neighborhood. Ras al Nabaaa peripheral area south of the capital but considered part of its metropolitan area.
The Health Emergency Operations Center of the Ministry of Public Health announced in a press release that the Israeli attack on this building in Ras al Nabaa caused, in an initial assessmentthe death of one person and three others injuredwhile specifying that the debris removal work is still in progress.
He Baath Party -originally the party of Al Assad in Syria and Saddam Hussein in Iraq- is present in other countries in the Middle East region and defends a nationalist ideology, unification and pan-Arab socialism, and presents an anti-imperialist position. This specific attack comes on the same day that Israel launched a series of attacks since early morning against several towns in southern Lebanon, which left at least eleven people dead.
