Reported by: Timesofisrael.com
The Israel Defense Forces carried out an airstrike Tuesday in the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp near the Lebanese coastal city of Sidon. The strike killed 13 people, according to Lebanese authorities.
The IDF confirmed the strike, saying it targeted terror operatives at a Hamas training facility.
Contrary to some preliminary Lebanese reports, the Israeli strike targeted a building some 60 meters from the Khalid bin al-Walid mosque, and not the mosque itself.
According to the IDF, the “military compound” was used by Hamas operatives for training “in order to plan and carry out terrorist attacks against IDF troops and the State of Israel.”
The military said it took steps to mitigate harm to civilians in the strike, including by using “a precision munition, aerial surveillance and additional intelligence.”
“The IDF is operating against Hamas’s entrenchment in Lebanon, and will continue to operate against Hamas terrorists wherever they operate,” the military added.
Hamas operatives in the area prevented journalists from reaching the scene, as ambulances rushed to evacuate the wounded and the dead.
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The strike marked a relatively rare case of an Israeli attack on the Palestinian terror group in Lebanon, in contrast to near-daily strikes against Hezbollah operatives there.
In July, a prominent Hamas commander was killed in a strike in Tripoli, and before that, in May, another commander in the group was killed in Sidon.
In a statement on the strike in Ain al-Hilweh, Hamas claimed it has no military installations in the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon.
Blaming Israel for the “brutal assault,” Hamas said that “claims that the targeted location was a ‘training compound affiliated with the movement’ are pure fabrications and lies,” as it insisted: “There are no military installations in the Palestinian camps in Lebanon.”
Commenting on the IDF video showing the strike hitting a building, Hamas claimed that “the targeted site was an open sports field frequented by the youth of the camp,” and that “those targeted were a group of young boys” on the field at the time.
Earlier on Tuesday, two strikes were reported in southern Lebanon — one in Blida, the other in Bint Jbeil.
Each of the two strikes killed one person, according to Lebanese media.
The IDF did not immediately comment on the earlier strikes.
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