BEIRUT: Palestinian militant group Hamas mentioned an Israeli strike killed certainly one of its commanders in a refugee camp in north Lebanon on Saturday (Oct 5), the primary time the world had been hit because the begin of the Gaza conflict.
“Commander” Saeed Attallah Ali, his spouse and two daughters had been killed in “Zionist bombardment of his home within the Beddawi camp” close to the northern metropolis of Tripoli, it mentioned.
Israel has repeatedly focused Hamas officers in Lebanon because the Gaza conflict erupted nearly a yr in the past.
Hamas has introduced the deaths of at the very least 18 of its militants in Lebanon since then.
The group mentioned an air strike on Monday killed its chief in Lebanon Fatah Sharif Abu al-Amine in his dwelling within the Al-Bass camp in south Lebanon.
In August, an Israeli strike on a car within the south Lebanon metropolis of Sidon killed Hamas commander Samer al-Hajj.
A strike in January, which a US defence official mentioned was carried out by Israel, killed Hamas deputy chief Saleh al-Aruri and 6 different militants in Hezbollah’s south Beirut stronghold.
Lebanon’s dozen Palestinian refugee camps had been created for many who had been pushed out or fled throughout the 1948 conflict that accompanied Israel’s creation.
By longstanding conference, the Lebanese military stays out of the camps and leaves the Palestinian factions to deal with safety.
