Israeli attack on Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon kills at least 13

Israel continues to onslaught Lebanon connected a near-daily ground successful usurpation of a yearlong ceasefire with Hezbollah.

At slightest 13 radical person been killed successful an Israeli aerial onslaught connected a Palestinian exile campy successful confederate Lebanon, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health.

The drone onslaught deed a car connected Tuesday successful the car parkland of a mosque successful the Ein el-Hilweh exile campy connected the outskirts of the coastal metropolis of Sidon, the Lebanese state-run National News Agency reported.

At slightest 4 radical were wounded successful the attack, the ministry said, adding that “ambulances are inactive transporting much wounded to adjacent hospitals.”

Israel said it struck members of the Palestinian equipped radical Hamas who were operating successful a grooming compound successful the exile camp.

“When we accidental we volition not tolerate immoderate menace connected our bluish border, this means each violent groups operating successful the region,” the Israeli military’s Arabic spokesperson Avichay Adraee said successful a statement. “We volition proceed to enactment forcefully against Hamas’s attempts to found a foothold successful Lebanon and destruct its elements that endanger our security.”

Hamas denied Israel’s claim, calling it a “fabrication” and stressing the radical doesn’t person grooming facilities successful Lebanon’s exile camps.

“The Zionist bombardment was a barbaric aggression against our guiltless Palestinian radical arsenic good arsenic Lebanon’s sovereignty,” it said successful a statement.

Earlier connected Tuesday, Lebanon said Israeli strikes connected cars elsewhere successful the country’s southbound killed 2 people.

Israel has killed respective officials from Palestinian factions including Hamas successful Lebanon since it launched its warfare connected Gaza successful October 2023 aft Hamas led an onslaught connected confederate Israel

Israel’s warfare connected Gaza has killed astatine slightest 69,483 Palestinians and wounded 170,706. A full of 1,139 radical were killed successful Israel during the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks, and much than 200 were taken captive.

A time aft Israel launched its warfare connected Gaza, Hezbollah began firing rockets towards Israel, which responded with shelling and aerial strikes successful Lebanon, and the 2 sides became locked successful a struggle that Israel escalated into a full-blown warfare successful precocious September 2024.

Israel’s warfare killed much than 4,000 radical successful Lebanon, including hundreds of civilians. In Israel, 127 radical were killed, including 80 soldiers.

The warfare halted successful precocious November 2024 with a United States-brokered ceasefire, but since then, Israel has carried retired dozens of aerial attacks connected Lebanon, accusing Hezbollah of trying to rebuild its capabilities.

Lebanon’s Health Ministry has reported much than 270 radical killed and astir 850 wounded by Israeli subject actions since the ceasefire.

“There are daily violations of the ceasefire by Israel successful Lebanon, and it would beryllium unfair astatine this signifier to pin the blasted connected the Lebanese government,” Lebanese governmental expert Karim Emile Bitar told Al Jazeera. “The Lebanese authorities went supra and beyond what was required … and took a historical determination to inquire the Lebanese service to disarm Hezbollah.”

However, Bitar said, Israel has not lived up to its extremity of the bargain. Under the terms of the ceasefire signed connected November 27, 2024, Israel was meant to retreat its forces from confederate Lebanon by January 26, a deadline it missed.