{"id":301587,"date":"2026-02-20T19:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T19:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/301587\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T19:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T19:58:08","slug":"israeli-drone-hits-palestinian-refugee-camp-in-southern-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/301587\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli drone hits Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Israeli drone has hit the largest Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, killing at least one person, a Palestinian source inside the camp told dpa on Friday.<\/p>\n

Lebanon’s state news agency NNA said the strike targeted the camp’s Hittin neighbourhood, causing casualties, without specifying the number of dead or wounded.<\/p>\n

The Israeli military said: “In response to the repeated violations of the ceasefire understandings, the IDF [Israel Defense Forces] struck a Hamas command center from which terrorists operated in the Ain al-Hilweh area in southern Lebanon.”<\/p>\n

The war between Israel and the Lebanese Hezbollah militia, which intensified throughout 2024, was followed by a ceasefire agreed in November of that year.<\/p>\n

Under the terms of the agreement, Hezbollah was required to lay down its weapons. However, a key deadline for the group’s disarmament expired at the end of last year.<\/p>\n

Despite the ceasefire, the Israeli military has conducted near-daily strikes on Lebanese targets.<\/p>\n

Ain al-Hilweh, in the south of the country, is the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, with approximately 80,000 residents. Most of the residents are refugees from the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948 and their descendants.<\/p>\n

There are 12 Palestinian refugee camps across Lebanon.<\/p>\n

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Germany’s Franziska Preuss on the track during the 4 x 6 kilometers Women’s Relay biathlon competition during the 2026 Winter Olympic Games Milan-Cortina. Hendrik Schmidt\/dpa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Israeli drone has hit the largest Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, killing at least one person,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[143881,152002,152003,85,46,21663,43,152000,152001,21664],"class_list":["post-301587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-2026-winter-olympic-games","tag-biathlon-competition","tag-franziska-preuss","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israeli-military","tag-news","tag-palestinian-refugee-camp","tag-palestinian-source","tag-southern-lebanon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}