An Israeli strike killed a commander in the Islamic Jihad movement and his daughter after a guided missile hit an apartment housing a Palestinian family on the outskirts of the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek, Lebanon’s state news agency said early on Monday.
The attack comes amid continued Israeli violations of the fragile ceasefire agreement announced on 17th April and extended on Friday for another 45 days until early July.
The National News Agency (NNA) said “the Israeli enemy” targeted, shortly after midnight, an apartment occupied by a Palestinian family near the southern entrance to Baalbek.
It added that the strike killed Islamic Jihad commander Wael Abdel Halim and his 17-year-old daughter Rama, while rescue and emergency teams were still working to remove rubble and search for survivors.
Islamic Jihad had not issued an immediate comment as of 23.20 GMT.
