Israeli strikes on Beirut kill six, including Hezbollah official [Video]

Lebanon said two Israeli strikes on central Beirut killed six people on Sunday, with Hezbollah confirming its spokesperson was among the dead.

Israel has been heavily bombing Beirut’s southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold, since all-out war erupted on September 23, but attacks on central Beirut have been rarer.

The first strike, on Beirut’s Ras al-Nabaa district, killed four people, including Hezbollah’s media relations chief Mohammed Afif, the group and Israel’s military said.

The health ministry said the second strike killed two people and wounded 22 in Mar Elias, raising an earlier toll of one dead and nine wounded.

“Israeli warplanes launched a strike on the Mar Elias area,” the official National News Agency said of the densely packed district that also houses people displaced by the conflict.

AFP journalists heard the sound of explosions and then sirens amid a strong acrid smell of burning. AFP images showed a blaze at …