Gaza, Lebanon hit in deadly assaults

GAZA/BEIRUT — Strikes by the Israeli military killed dozens in Gaza on Sunday, the civil defense said, while also hitting a Hezbollah stronghold near Beirut's international airport.

Israel has been fighting on two fronts since September, intensifying attacks on Lebanon's Hezbollah after the cross-border clashes with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

A Lebanese security source said Hezbollah spokesman Mohammed Afif was killed in a strike on Beirut's Ras al-Nabaa district, Agence France-Presse reported. Israel's military declined to comment.