An Israeli airstrike early Tuesday targeted a Palestinian Fatah terrorist, Reuters reported.
Mounir Maqdah, commander of the Lebanese branch of Fatah’s “military” wing, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, was the target, two Palestinian security officials told the news agency.
It was not clear if the strike was successful.
The strike on a building in Ain al-Hilweh near the southern coastal city of Sidon marked the first time that Israel has targeted the Palestinian camp since hostilities broke out with Hezbollah.
In August, Israel killed Fatah terrorist Khalil Makdah in a drone strike near Sidon.
Fatah is the political faction chaired by Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas.
The leader of the Hamas terrorist organization in Lebanon, Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin, was killed in an airstrike in the Tyre area in the south of the country, Israel said on Monday. He was an employee of UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees and their descendants.
Also on Monday, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) announced that three of its terrorist operatives were killed in an Israeli airstrike overnight Sunday in Beirut.
