An Israeli strike on a refugee camp in northern Lebanon has killed Hamas official Saeed Atallah Ali and his family, the militant group has reported.
The early morning strike came a day after another Israeli air strike cut off a major highway linking Lebanon with Syria, leaving two large craters on either side of the road.
Israel began a ground incursion into Lebanon on Tuesday against the Hezbollah militant group. The Israeli military stated that nine soldiers have died in the conflict in southern Lebanon.
Israel and Hezbollah have traded fire across the Lebanon border almost daily since the day after Hamas’s cross-border attack on October 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 Israelis and took 250 others hostage.
In response, Israel declared war on the Hamas militant group in the Gaza Strip. As the Israel-Hamas war reaches the one-year mark, more than 41,000 Palestinians have been killed in the territory, with just over half of the deceased being women and children, according to local health officials.
Nearly 2,000 people have been killed in Lebanon since then, most of them since September 23, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.
Story Source: Irish Examiner
