The IDF carried out an airstrike this evening inside the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp near Sidon, targeting what it says was a Hamas training facility used by operatives preparing attacks against Israel.

Lebanon’s health ministry reports that 13 people were killed and four others wounded in the strike.

According to the IDF, the site functioned as a “military compound” where Hamas terrorists trained “in order to plan and carry out terrorist attacks against IDF troops and the State of Israel.”

The military says multiple precautions were taken to reduce civilian casualties, including the use of “a precision munition, aerial surveillance and additional intelligence.”

“The IDF is operating against Hamas’s entrenchment in Lebanon, and will continue to operate against Hamas terrorists wherever they operate,” the army said.

Israeli strikes on Hamas targets in Lebanon are relatively rare. In July, a senior Hamas commander was eliminated in Tripoli, and in May, another commander was killed in Sidon.

(YWN World Headquarters – NYC)