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Live Updates: Israel strikes Hamas, PFLP commanders in Lebanon, hints at ground invasion

Rosaleen Carroll Adam Lucente
Rosaleen Carroll , Adam Lucente
Sep 27, 2024
Firefighters check the balcony of an apartment building hit by an Israeli air strike in Beirut's Cola district, September 30, 2024. Two people were killed in an Israeli strike on Beirut on September 30, a Lebanese security source said, the first strike on the city itself since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel last year. An Israeli drone targeted an apartment belonging to two members of the Lebanese Islamist group Jamaa Islamiya, said the source. (Photo by Fadel ITANI / AFP) (Photo by FADEL ITANI/AFP via
Firefighters check the balcony of an apartment building hit by an Israeli air strike in Beirut's Cola district, September 30, 2024. Two people were killed in an Israeli strike on Beirut on September 30, a Lebanese security source said, the first strike on the city itself since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel last year. An Israeli drone targeted an apartment belonging to two members of the Lebanese Islamist group Jamaa Islamiya, said the source.

The commander of Hamas in Lebanon and three leaders of another Palestinian group were killed in separate Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon early Monday, as the Israeli army continues to intensify its attacks across the country, mainly striking Hezbollah targets and members.

Hamas announced in a statement the killing of its commander in Lebanon — Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin — who is also a member of the group’s leadership abroad, along with his son and wife, when an Israeli strike hit their home in the Palestinian el-Buss refugee camp in the southern city of Tyre.

Earlier, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said three of its leaders, including its military commander in Lebanon Abd al-Aal, were killed in an Israeli air raid in the Cola area in Beirut.

Israel has stepped up its strikes in Lebanon in the past week, also killing Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah on Friday. Elsewhere in the region, Israeli military spokesperson Avichay Adraee said Israeli Air Force jets carried out strikes on Sunday on Houthi targets in the areas of Yemen’s Ras Isa and Hodeidah, including power stations and a port used for oil, raising fears of a wider war in the Middle East.

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