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Beirut, Lebanon:
Palestinian militant group Hamas said its leader in Lebanon was killed in an attack in the south of the country on Monday, as state media reported an attack on a Palestinian refugee camp.
A Hamas statement said “Fath Sharif Abu al-Amin, the leader of Hamas in Lebanon and a member of the movement’s leadership abroad,” was killed in an airstrike at his home in al-Bas camp in southern Lebanon. .
It said he was killed along with his wife, son and daughter in a “terrorist and culpable homicide”.
The state-run National News Agency reported the airstrike on Albas, near the city of Tyre, saying it was the “first time” the camp had been targeted.
The statement came hours after the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a secular left-wing group, said three of its members were killed in an attack in the Kola district of Beirut on Monday morning.
Israel has repeatedly targeted Hamas officials in Lebanon since the Gaza war began nearly a year ago.
An attack in January, which a US defense official said was carried out by Israel, killed Saleh al-Awri, the deputy leader of Hamas, and six other militants in Hezbollah’s southern Beirut stronghold.
In August, Hamas commander Samar al-Haj was killed in an Israeli attack on a vehicle in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon.
Lebanon’s official Palestinian refugee camps were built for Palestinians who were expelled or fled during the 1948 war at the time of Israel’s creation.
Under a long-standing convention, the Lebanese army stays out of the camps, leaving Palestinian factions to handle security.
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