In a notable development on the ground, Israel carried out an air strike at dawn on Thursday targeting a residential apartment near a mosque in the Beddawi camp in the city of Tripoli, northern Lebanon. This is the first time that the northern region has witnessed such an attack since the beginning of the recent confrontations.
Information received from the field indicates that the raid hit an apartment inside one of the camp’s buildings, leading to a powerful explosion whose echo was heard in many parts of Tripoli and its suburbs, amid a state of tension and alert among the people.
Available data revealed that the target of the raid was Waseem Atallah Al-Ali, one of the leaders of the Hamas movement in the camp, who was present in his home with his family members at the moment of the attack.
This escalation comes at a time when Lebanon is witnessing a noticeable military escalation, as the Israeli army intensified its raids in the last hours on the southern suburbs of Beirut, southern Lebanon and the Bekaa, coinciding with repeated warnings to residents of some areas to evacuate.
Later, the Public Health Emergency Operations Center of the Ministry of Public Health announced in a statement that the Israeli raid that targeted a residential apartment in the Beddawi camp in Tripoli resulted in “the martyrdom of two people and the wounding of a female citizen.”
It is worth noting that his brother, “Saeed Atallah Ali,” one of the leaders of the Al-Qassam Brigades, “was martyred along with a number of his family members on October 5, 2024, following an Israeli raid that targeted a residential apartment inside the Beddawi camp in Tripoli.”
The Hamas movement announced at the time, “The martyrdom of Saeed Ali, his wife, Shaima Khalil Azzam, and his two daughters, Zainab and Fatima, after an Israeli drone targeted an apartment on the fifth floor of a residential building inside the camp.”
This new targeting brings back memory of the raid that targeted the same family about a year and a half ago, so that Waseem Atallah Al-Ali joined his brother who was martyred in the same Israeli bombing on the Beddawi camp.
The targeting of the Beddawi camp is considered evidence of the expansion of the scope of military operations to include northern Lebanon for the first time since the beginning of the escalation, after the raids were mainly concentrated in the south, the southern suburbs, and the vicinity of Beirut.
