Lhe Palestinian Hamas announced the death on Saturday of one of its commanders and his family in an Israeli strike on a Palestinian refugee camp near Tripoli in northern Lebanon.
Said Attallah Ali, his wife and two of his daughters were killed in a strike in the Beddawi camp according to a Hamas statement, the first in this region since the start of the conflict between the Islamist movement and Israel almost one year.
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On September 30, Fatah Sharif Abou al-Amine, the leader of Hamas in Lebanon, was killed along with his family in a strike attributed to Israel on his home in the al-Bass Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon. .
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