IDF confirms killing Hezbollah media chief in Beirut strike: Involved in ‘psychological terror’

After the terror group announced his death, the IDF confirms that it killed Hezbollah’s top spokesman Mohammad Afif in an airstrike in Beirut earlier today.

Afif was in charge of Hezbollah’s media relations. The IDF calls him Hezbollah’s chief propagandist and spokesperson.

He joined Hezbollah in the 1980s, and “wielded significant influence over Hezbollah’s military operations,” the IDF says in a statement.

The IDF says Afif “was in contact with senior officials and directly involved in advancing and executing Hezbollah’s terrorist activities against Israel.”

“Moreover, Afif directed Hezbollah operatives to gather footage from the field, to be used for Hezbollah’s propaganda and psychological terror” the statement continues.

The IDF says Afif also received instructions from senior Hezbollah commanders regarding taking responsibility for a drone attack on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s home in Caesarea last month.

“Afif’s impact on the terrorist organization proves that he was directly involved in Hezbollah’s terrorist activity against the State of Israel,” the military says.

“Messages broadcast by Afif to the Lebanese media glorified and incited terrorist activities against the State of Israel, and he was responsible for numerous psychological terror operations against the Israeli public,” the IDF adds.

Lebanon’s health ministry said four people were killed in the strike and 14 wounded, raising an earlier toll of one dead and three wounded.