Mohammed Afif al-Naboulsi, the spokesperson for the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia, was killed in an Israeli attack on Sunday amid the escalating tensions in West Asia. After a full-scale conflict broke out between Israel and Hezbollah in September, Afif had been particularly noticeable.

According to a statement from Hezbollah, Mohammed Afif was murdered in an attack on the Beirut office of the Arab socialist Baath party, as reported by AP. Afif was murdered in a hit at a major crossroads without an Israeli evacuation notice. According to the Lebanese Health Ministry, there were 14 injuries, including two minors, and four fatalities.

In 1983, Mohammed Afif, a member of Hezbollah’s founding generation, started working in the media. He was close to Hassan Nasrallah, who was assassinated on September 27, 2024, by Israeli troops. In 2014, while serving as a media counselor to Nasrallah, Afif was named head of Hezbollah’s media relations department.

Images from the purported hit that killed Afif were circulated by a number of news outlets. Times Now Digital was unable to independently confirm the films’ legitimacy, however.

One witness said that he was sleeping at the time of the strike. Suheil Halabi, a witness, said, “I was asleep and woke up from the sound of the strike, and people screaming, and cars and gunfire.”

Another attack struck a computer business in downtown Beirut on Sunday night, leaving two people dead and 22 injured, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry. Israel’s military did not immediately comment on either attack.

This follows the Saturday firing of two flash bombs on the residence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the northern Israeli town of Caesarea. According to Reuters, which cited police, neither Netanyahu nor his family were there when they fell into the yard.

The assault on Netanyahu’s home in Caesarea was the second of its kind. A drone was fired at his house earlier in October, damaging his bedroom window.

According to Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz, the event went above “all red lines” in an early Sunday post on X. “It is not possible for the Prime Minister of Israel, who is threatened by Iran and its proxies who are trying to assassinate him, to be subject to the same threats from home,” Katz said.

After issuing an evacuation warning, Israel has started hitting a number of buildings in the southern suburbs of Beirut, which have historically served as the headquarters for Hezbollah. Israeli attacks have murdered a number of high-ranking Hezbollah commanders, including Hassan Nasrallah, his probable successor Hashem Saifeddine, and several more.