An Israeli airstrike struck a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, killing 13 people and wounding several others.
The attack targeted the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp on the outskirts of Sidon, hitting a car parked near a mosque, according to Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency. The Lebanese Health Ministry confirmed the deaths and said several people were injured, though details on the victims were not immediately available. Hamas fighters in the area restricted journalists from accessing the site as ambulances rushed to evacuate the wounded and recover the dead.
The Israeli military stated that the strike targeted a Hamas training compound allegedly being used to plan attacks against Israel. The army warned that it would continue taking action against Hamas wherever the group operates. Hamas, however, denied the claim, saying the airstrike hit a sports playground and not a military facility.
This airstrike is the deadliest attack in Lebanon since the Israel-Hezbollah war a year ago, following the Hamas attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, which killed about 1,200 people. That event prompted Israel’s major offensive in Gaza, resulting in tens of thousands of Palestinian deaths. During the same conflict, Hezbollah began firing rockets at Israel, leading to an escalation that became a full-scale war in late September 2024.
The 2024 war caused widespread destruction in Lebanon, killing more than 4,000 people, including hundreds of civilians, and causing roughly $11 billion in damages. In Israel, 127 people died, including 80 soldiers. The conflict ended in November 2024 through a U.S.-brokered ceasefire. Since then, Israel has carried out numerous airstrikes in Lebanon, claiming Hezbollah is rebuilding its military capacity.
Lebanon’s Health Ministry reports that more than 270 people have died and about 850 have been wounded in Israeli operations since the ceasefire. Over the past two years, Israeli strikes in Lebanon have also targeted high-ranking officials of Hamas and Hezbollah, including Saleh Arouri, a senior Hamas military leader killed in January 2024.
The latest strike underscores the continuing tensions in southern Lebanon and the fragile security situation, highlighting the ongoing risk to civilians in the region.
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