LEBANON – A Hamas leader, his wife and their two daughters have been killed in an Israeli strike on northern Lebanon, the Palestinian armed group says, as Israeli air raids continue against the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah in the southern suburbs of Beirut.

Commander Saeed Attallah Ali and his family were killed on Saturday in the “Zionist bombardment of his house in the Beddawi camp” near the northern city of Tripoli, Hamas said, the first time the area had been hit since the start of the Gaza war nearly a year ago. Ali has been identified as a leader of Hamas’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades.

Israel has repeatedly targeted Hamas officials in Lebanon in recent weeks, killing several of the most senior leaders of the group. Hamas said 18 of its senior commanders have been killed in recent weeks. Israel’s military did not immediately comment on the strike near the port city of Tripoli. (Al Jazeera)…[+]