Israeli strike on residential block kills 72, Gaza ministry says as Hezbollah media boss dies in Beirut - It comes as an Israeli strike on Beirut kills the chief of media relations for Lebanese milita

A Hezbollah official said Mohammed Afif was killed in the strike on the Lebanese capital. The main spokesman for Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group has been killed in the first Israeli air strike on central Beirut in more than a month, an official with the group said.

An Israeli strike on a building in a densely populated district of Beirut on Sunday killed Hezbollah’s media relations chief Mohammad Afif, two Lebanese security sources said, although there was no immediate confirmation from Hezbollah.

Israeli airstrikes in Gaza overnight have killed 12 people while police arrested three suspects after flares were fired at the private residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the coastal city of Caesarea.

Netanyahu has faced months of mass protests over his handling of the hostage crisis unleashed by Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack into Israel, which ignited the ongoing war in Gaza.

Palestinian medical officials say two Israeli strikes in Gaza killed at least 14 people, including two children and a woman, most in an Israeli-declared humanitarian zone.

A rare Israeli strike in central Beirut killed the Hezbollah militant group's chief spokesman on Sunday, while an Israeli strike in northern Gaza ’s Beit Lahiya killed at least 30 people, a hospital director there told The Associated Press.

In northern Gaza, about 70 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes on the Beit Lahia area of northern Gaza early Sunday morning, Munir al-Bursh, director general of Gaza’s Heal