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Hamas says its top leader in Lebanon, Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin, has been killed in an Israeli airstrike.
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It said he was killed along with his wife and children in their home in Al-Bas camp.
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Israel targets Hezbollah in its attacks on Lebanon.
Hamas said its leader in Lebanon, Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin, and several of his relatives were killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon.
The militant group made the statement on its Telegram channel on Monday, per NBC News.
It says that el-Amin was killed along with his wife and children “in their home in the (Al-Bas) camp.”
In an X after On Monday, the Israeli military said he was killed in a precision strike carried out by the Israeli air force.
As head of Hamas’s Lebanese branch, el-Amin reportedly oversaw the organization’s recruitment of operatives and arms purchasing activities there.
His reported death comes after Israel said it had killed the longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah Saturday in an airstrike in Lebanon.
It also claimed to have eliminated Nabil Qaouk, the commander of Hezbollah’s Preventive Security Unit and a member of the group’s Executive Council, in a separate airstrike.
Israel has continued to attack targets in southern Lebanon and Beirut.
The latest developments are developments that could Involving Iran more directly in the conflict given its ties to the militant groups.
Iran is under pressure to respond to such attacks, but Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian also wants to reduce tensions with the US and have economic sanctions on his country lifted. That seems less and less likely.
In July, when Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran just hours after attending Pezeshkian’s inauguration, pointing the finger at Israel, Iran vowed to retaliate but has not yet done so.
Since Nasrallah’s killing on Saturday, several Iranian officials, as well as Hezbollah, have vowed to take revenge.
At a press conference on Monday, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said Iran would not leave any “criminal act” by Israel unanswered. Reuters.
Tasnim news agency quoted Elias Hazrati, head of Iran’s Government Information Council proverb: “We will show Israel’s defeat to the people of the world.”
Meanwhile, Naim Qassem, deputy head of Hezbollah, said that despite the deaths of its leader and other top commanders, the Lebanese armed group is ready to face an Israeli ground offensive. al-Jazeera.
This is a development story. Check back later for updates.
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