Hamas said that its leader in Lebanon, Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin, was killed in an Israeli strike in the south of the country, Paralel.Az reports citing Times of Israel.

The group says a number of his family members were also killed in the strike.

“Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin, the leader of Hamas… in Lebanon and member of the movement’s leadership abroad” was killed in a strike on his “home in the Al-Bass camp in south Lebanon,” a Hamas statement says.

The official National News Agency reported an airstrike near the southern city of Tyre.