6 killed in Israeli strike on Ain el-Helweh

A Palestinian camp official told AFP that an Israeli strike targeted a top Palestinian militant on Tuesday in the community in the south Lebanon city of Sidon.

"The Israeli raid targeted the house of the son of Mounir Maqdah" in the Ain el-Helweh camp, the largest of Lebanon’s 12 refugee camps, the official said, requesting anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.

Lebanon’s state news agency said the airstrike killed six people, including Maqdah's son.

NNA said Maqdah’s son and daughter-in-law, as well as another woman and three children, were killed in the airstrike.

Maqdah’s brother, Khalil Maqdah, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in August in the port city of Sidon.