Hezbollah’s main spokespersonMohamed Afifi, is among the dead caused by Israeli bombings At headquarters of the Arab Socialist Baath Party in Lebanon, located in the Ras al Nabaa district of Beirut, 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 by chance and died. The armed group has not yet commented on the matter.
In this sense, Hegazy indicated that the attack on the party headquarters and on Afifi occurred within the “framework of continuous threats” against the group since the beginning of “the Israeli aggression” against Lebanon.
“What we seek through these attacks is to silence the voice of resistance in the media and at the political level, because this exposes them (…) Afifi did not fight with weapons and did not lead any Hezbollah military unitbut rather ran 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 statement that the Israeli attack on this building in Ras al Nabaa initially caused the death of one person and injured three others, while specifying that debris removal work is still in progress.
He Baath Party -initially the Al Assad party 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, while presenting an anti-imperialist position.
Israeli attack in Ras Al-Nabaa, Beirut, against the headquarters of the Baath Party.
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This specific attack comes on the same day that Israel launched a series of attacks since early Sunday morning. against several cities in southern Lebanonthat they left at least eleven dead.
