Hamas commander killed in airstrike in southern Lebanon

Israeli forces have attacked a refugee camp in Lebanon, killing a senior Palestinian militant Hamas official, foreign media reported.

Hamas said in a statement that Hamas's Lebanese chief Fatah Sharif Abu Al-Amin was at home in the southern Lebanese town of Albas when he was attacked and martyred with his family, according to Reuters and other sources.

Lebanon's state-run NNA news agency reported that the al-Bas refugee camp was the first to be attacked.

The Israeli military also said in a statement that it had "removed Sharif" and explained that Sharif had been leading Lebanon's Hamas organization, recruiting members, securing weapons and coordinating operations with Hezbollah.

The Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon was created for those who fled the first Middle East war, which broke out in 1948 when Israel was founded.

Meanwhile, the hardline armed Palestinian People's Liberation Front says the Kola district in Beirut, Lebanon, was bombed, killing three executives.

Lebanon's health ministry said six paramedics from the Islamic Health Commission, a Hezbollah-linked organization, were killed in Israeli airstrikes in the eastern Becca Valley.