An Israeli strike on Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp has killed one person, state media reported, with the Israeli army saying it had targeted the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
The official National News Agency said "an Israeli drone" targeted a neighbourhood of the Ain al-Helweh camp, which is located on the outskirts of the southern city of Sidon.
It reported that one person was killed and an unspecified number wounded. An AFP correspondent saw smoke rising from a building in the densely populated camp as ambulances headed to the scene.
The Israeli army said in a statement that its forces "struck a Hamas command centre from which terrorists operated".
Israel has kept up regular strikes on Lebanon despite a November 2024 ceasefire that sought to halt more than a year of hostilities with the militant group Hezbollah.
Israel has also struck targets belonging to Hezbollah's Palestinian ally Hamas, including in a raid on Ain al-Helweh last November that killed 13 people.
The UN rights office had said 11 children were killed in that strike, which Israel said targeted a Hamas training compound, though the group denied it had military installations in Palestinian camps in Lebanon.
In October 2023, Hezbollah began launching rockets at Israel in support of Hamas at the outset of the Gaza war, triggering months of exchanges that culminated in two months of all-out war in Lebanon.
On Sunday, Lebanon said an Israeli strike near the Syrian border in the country's east killed four people, as Israel said it targeted operatives from Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad.
Hamas says Israel must end 'aggression'
Hamas said any discussions on Gaza must begin with a total halt to Israeli "aggression" as Donald Trump's 'Board of Peace' maps out the territory's future, with Israel insisting on the militants' disarmament before reconstruction starts.
Mr Trump's board met for its inaugural session in Washington yesterday, with a number of countries pledging money and personnel for rebuilding, more than four months into a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
But the board meeting offered no timeline for Hamas to lay down its weapons or for Israel's army to withdraw from the shattered enclave.
"Any political process or any arrangement under discussion concerning the Gaza Strip and the future of our Palestinian people must start with the total halt of aggression," Hamas said in a statement yesterday.
The Palestinian group also said arrangements for Gaza's future must start with the "lifting of the blockade, and the guarantee of our people's legitimate national rights, first and foremost their right to freedom and self-determination".
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted that Hamas must disarm before any reconstruction begins.
The Israeli leader did not attend the Washington meeting but was represented by his foreign minister Gideon Saar.
