(ASSOCIATED PRESS) – An Israeli attack on a refugee camp in northern Lebanon has killed Hamas official Saeed Atallah Ali and his family, the militant group said on Saturday. The early morning attack came a day after another Israeli airstrike cut off a main road connecting Lebanon with Syria, leaving two huge craters on either side of the road.
Israel launched a ground incursion into Lebanon on Tuesday against the militant group Hezbollah. The Israeli army said nine soldiers have been killed in the conflict in southern Lebanon.
Israel and Hezbollah have exchanged fire across the border with Lebanon almost daily since the day after Hamas’ cross-border attack on October 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 Israelis and took 250 others hostage. In response, Israel declared war on the militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip. As the war between Israel and Hamas nears the one-year mark, more than 41,000 Palestinians have been killed in the area, with just over half of the deaths being women and children, according to local health officials.
Nearly 2,000 people have been killed in Lebanon since then, most since September 23, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.
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