Hezbollah's Al Manar TV says one of its directors killed in ‘Israeli’ strike

• Mohammad Sherri, the director of political programs for Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV, was killed alongside his wife in a strike on the Zuqaq al-Blat neighborhood; his children and grandchildren were also wounded and hospitalized.
• At least 12 people were killed as ‘Israel’ struck three central neighborhoods (Bashoura, Basta, and Zuqaq al-Blat) without warning, targeting what it claimed were Hezbollah command centers and financial assets.

Hezbollah's Al Manar TV said the director of its political programmes was killed alongside his wife in ‘Israeli’ strikes on central Beirut on Wednesday, which killed at least 12 people according to Lebanese authorities.

In a statement, the channel said the "director of political programmes at the channel, Mohammad Sherri and his wife" were killed "in the Zionist raid on the Zuqaq al-Blat area in Beirut".

His children and grandchildren were wounded and hospitalised following the strike, according to Al Manar.

‘Israel’ struck three different neighbourhoods of central Beirut on Wednesday, one of them with prior warning but others without.

Lebanon was drawn into the Middle East war on March 2 when Hezbollah launched rockets into ‘Israel’ to avenge the killing of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

‘Israel’ responded with intense strikes on multiple regions around the country and by launching ground operations in the south.

Al-Manar said that Sherri had recently undergone surgery and was recovering when he was killed by the ‘Israeli’ strike.

On March 3, another Israeli strike hit Al Manar's office in Beirut's southern suburbs, a densely populated Hezbollah stronghold that has been pounded by Israel since the start of the current war.

Hezbollah's Al-Nour radio was also targeted that day.