Israeli strike kills Fatah official in Lebanon
Sidon, Lebanon — AFP
An Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon killed a Fatah official, a senior member of the Palestinian group and a security source said.
It marked the first such reported attack on Fatah, the movement led by Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, in more than 10 months of cross-border clashes between Israel and Lebanon’s pro-Palestine resistance movement Hezbollah.
“The Israeli strike in Sidon killed (Fatah) group official Khalil Makdah,” said Fathi Abu al-Aradat, a senior member of the group.
A Lebanese security source confirmed the report, saying the strike hit his car.
A correspondent at the site of the attack said a car was struck near the Palestinian camps of Ain al-Helweh and Mieh Mieh, adding rescuers had pulled a body from the charred vehicle.
Lebanon’s official National News Agency said Makdah was killed “in a drone strike on his car.”
Mounir Makdah, who heads the Lebanese branch of Fatah’s armed wing, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, told broadcaster Al-Mayadeen that his brother Khalil had been killed.
Fatah controls the Palestinian Authority, which has partial administrative control in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
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