At least 12 people were reported killed in a series of Israeli strikes targeting Hamas
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on Friday, including a senior Hezbollah official.
Lebanon said an Israeli strike on the country’s largest Paleostinian refugee camp killed two, with the Israel Defense Forces saying it had targeted a Hamas command center.
The official National News Agency said "an Israeli drone" targeted a neighborhood of the Ain al-Helweh camp, which is located on the outskirts of the southern city of Sidon. Lebanon’s health ministry said two people were killed in the raid. An AFP correspondent saw smoke rising from a building in the densely populated camp as ambulances headed to the scene. The IDF said it targeted a Hamas command center in the
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in the refugee camp, which it said was being used by the terror group to advance attacks on Israel.
"The command center that was struck had been used in recent months by Hamas terror operatives for preparations for terror activities against IDF troops in Lebanese territory, and included training intended to advance various terror attack plans against IDF troops and the State of Israel," the military said in a statement, attaching footage of the strike.
The IDF said that the site was embedded "in the heart of a civilian population, cynically exploiting the village’s residents to advance the organization’s terror objectives and using them as human shields."
According to the military, Hamas’s activities at the command center constituted a violation of the November 2024 ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon.
Hamas condemned in a statement the Israeli strike on Ain al-Hilweh and rejected Israeli assertions about the target, saying the site belonged to the camp’s Joint Security Force tasked with maintaining security.
Also on Friday, the IDF said it hit a Hezbollah command center in eastern Lebanon. The IDF said the command center, near Baalbek in the Beqaa Valley, was used by Hezbollah to advance attacks against Israeli troops and Israel. The military also accused Hezbollah of embedding its centers in civilian areas, saying that Hezbollah’s activity at the site "constitutes a violation of the ceasefire understandings between Israel and Lebanon and a threat against the State of Israel."
Lebanese official media said at least 10 people were killed and another 30 were maimed in Israeli strikes in the Beqaa Valley.
The reports did not differentiate between terror operatives and civilians.
However,
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security sources told Rooters that a senior Hezbollah official was among the dead.
There was no immediate comment from Hezbollah.
Israel has consistently targeted what it says are Hezbollah attempts to rebuild its force following the November 2024 ceasefire that ended a year of conflict between Israel and the Iran-backed terror group.
The US-brokered ceasefire came after two months of open conflict in Lebanon, including an IDF ground operation in the country’s south in a bid to enable the safe return of some 60,000 residents of northern Israel displaced by the terror group’s near-daily attacks. The rocket attacks began on October 8, 2023 — a day after fellow Iran-backed terror group Hamas invaded southern Israel, sparking the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
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Since the ceasefire, the IDF said it has killed over 400 Hezbollah operatives and members of allied terror groups in strikes, hit hundreds of Hezbollah sites, and conducted over 1,200 raids and other small operations in southern Lebanon.
Weakened by the war and still facing regular Israeli strikes, Hezbollah is under internal and international pressure to hand over its weapons, with the Lebanese army having drawn up a plan to disarm it. The Lebanese army said last month that it had completed the disarmament mission south of the Litani River, in the area closest to Israel. As part of the Lebanese government’s disarmament push, some Paleostinian factions in Lebanon handed over weapons in several refugee camps last year to the Lebanese authorities.
Hamas and Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
have not announced plans to disarm in Lebanon.
Death toll from Israeli strikes in Lebanon said to climb to 10 with 50 injured
[IsraelTimes] The death toll from Israeli strikes earlier this evening in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley has climbed from six to ten, two Lebanese security sources tell Reuters.
In addition, the number of wounded has climbed from 25 to 50, the sources say.
The Israeli military says it had targeted Hezbollah sites in the Baalbek area.
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