Hezbollah spokesman killed in rare Israeli air strike on central Beirut

Smoke rises from a building that collapsed following an Israeli air strike in Chiyah, south of Beirut (Bilal Hussein/AP)

A rare Israeli air strike on central Beirut has killed Hezbollah’s chief spokesman, an official with the militant group said.

Earlier, Israeli strikes killed at least 12 people in the Gaza Strip, officials said, where Israel has been at war with Hamas for more than a year.