US EditionIsraeli Attack on Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon Kills 13
The Israeli military targeted a Hamas training site amid broader conflict with Hezbollah, with 13 killed and multiple wounded, the Lebanese Health Ministry reported.
- On Tuesday, an Israeli airstrike killed 13 people and wounded several in the Ein el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp near Sidon, Lebanon, hitting a car in a mosque parking lot, the Lebanese Health Ministry and state media said.
- The Israeli military said it targeted a Hamas training compound used to prepare an attack and will continue acting against Hamas, amid the wider Israel-Hamas war and cross-border actions in Lebanon.
- The strike was described as the deadliest in Lebanon since last year's ceasefire, with ambulance crews evacuating casualties while Hamas fighters blocked journalists, according to reports.
- Regional exchanges have widened beyond Gaza into sustained cross-border fighting as Hezbollah began firing rockets a day after the Israel-Hamas war started, escalating into full-blown war in late September 2024.
- Recent years have seen repeated targeted killings of militant figures in Lebanon, including Saleh Arouri, deputy political head of Hamas, killed on January 2, 2024, as strikes continue across the region.
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The strike resulted in 13 casualties, the most deadly attack in Lebanon since the entry into force last year of a United States-led ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.
At least 13 people were killed by Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon. This is the highest human score since the "ceasefire" entered into force on 27 November 2024 between the Hebrew state and Hezbollah.
Israel attacked this night the Palestinian refugee camp Ain al-Hilweh in Lebanon, killing 13 people. The army justified the attack, saying that locals serve Hamas to train their soldiers.
The IDF claims to attack Hamas terrorists who use the one-al-hilweh camp as a "training camp."
The death toll has risen to 13, with several people injured, in an Israeli airstrike on a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon.
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