BEIRUT, Lebanon: Lebanon said an Israeli strike on a Palestinian refugee camp in the country’s south killed at least 13 people on Tuesday in an updated toll, as Israel said it struck a Hamas compound.
Israel has kept up strikes on Lebanon despite a ceasefire agreed last November that sought to halt more than a year of hostilities with Hezbollah — an ally of Palestinian militant group Hamas — including two months of full-blown war.
Israel usually says it is targeting operatives or sites belonging to the Iran-backed Hezbollah but it has also struck Hamas operatives in Lebanon, both during the hostilities and since the ceasefire.
In an updated toll, the health ministry reported “13 dead and a number of others wounded” in the strike in the Ain Al-Helweh refugee camp on the outskirts of the city of Sidon, adding that “ambulances are still transporting more wounded to nearby hospitals.”
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said the strike targeted a car near the Khalid bin Al-Walid mosque and that “subsequently it was reported that the raid also targeted” the mosque itself and a center of the same name.
