By Onoja Baba, Nigeria
An Israeli airstrike in northern Lebanon on Saturday, killed Hamas commander Saeed Attallah Ali along his wife and two daughters, marking the first strike in the region since the Gaza war began.
The attack targeted their home in the Beddawi refugee camp near Tripoli, according to a statement from the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
The incident adds to a growing list of targeted killings of Hamas officials by Israel in Lebanon.
Since the outbreak of the Gaza conflict nearly a year ago, Israel has carried out multiple airstrikes aimed at Hamas operatives across Lebanon, resulting in the deaths of at least 18 militants.
Earlier this week, an Israeli airstrike killed another Hamas leader, Fatah Sharif Abu al-Amine, at his residence in the Al-Bass refugee camp in southern Lebanon.
Similar strikes in recent months have also targeted senior Hamas figures, including Samer al-Hajj in Sidon and Saleh al-Aruri in Beirut’s Hezbollah stronghold.
Lebanon’s Palestinian refugee camps, established after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, remain largely autonomous, with security managed by Palestinian factions rather than the Lebanese army.
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