The Israeli military launched a wave of attacks on the city centre of the Lebanese capital Beirut on Sunday, as dozens more Palestinians were reported killed in strikes in the Gaza Strip. The state news agency NNA reported an Israeli attack near the famous Mar Elias shopping street.

The head of Hezbollah's media relations, Mohammad Afif, was killed Sunday in an Israeli strike that targeted a building in a densely-populated neighborhood in Beirut.

Hezbollah's media chief Mohammed Afif has been killed in an Israeli strike in central Beirut, according to news reports citing Lebanese security sources. A strike hit the headquarters of the Baath political party in the densely populated Ras al-Naba neighbourhood on Sunday, according to Lebanon's state-run National News Agency.