Hamas said that its leader in Lebanon, Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin, was killed in an Israeli strike in the south of the country, APA reports citing Times of Israel.
The group says a number of his family members were also killed in the strike.
“Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin, the leader of Hamas… in Lebanon and member of the movement’s leadership abroad” was killed in a strike on his “home in the Al-Bass camp in south Lebanon,” a Hamas statement says.
The official National News Agency reported an airstrike near the southern city of Tyre.