Younger displaced Palestinians maintain Ramadan lanterns as decorations are arrange subsequent to their tents on the Bureij refugee camp within the central Gaza Strip on February 15, 2026.
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Lebanon stated an Israeli strike on Sunday (February 15, 2026) close to the Syrian border within the nation’s east killed 4 folks, as Israel stated it had focused operatives from Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad.
Regardless of a November 2024 truce that sought to finish greater than a yr of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, Israel has stored up common strikes on Lebanon, normally saying it’s focusing on the Iran-backed group however often additionally focusing on its Palestinian ally Hamas.
It gave the impression to be the primary strike Israel has claimed in Lebanon in opposition to Islamic Jihad, which can also be allied with Hezbollah, because the truce.
An Israeli drone “focused a automotive on the Lebanese-Syrian border”, the state-run Nationwide Information Company stated, including that “4 our bodies” had been contained in the automobile.
Lebanon’s Well being Ministry confirmed the toll in an announcement.
The Israeli navy in an announcement stated it “struck Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists within the Majdal Anjar space”.
Fighters from Islamic Jihad had been amongst these killed in Lebanon throughout hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, which erupted in October 2023 over the Gaza conflict.
The Palestinian group and Hamas each claimed some assaults and infiltration makes an attempt from Lebanon in the course of the hostilities.
Greater than 370 folks have been killed by Israeli hearth in Lebanon because the ceasefire, in accordance with an AFP tally of Well being Ministry experiences.
According to the 2024 truce, the Lebanese military introduced in January that it had accomplished the primary section of a authorities plan to disarm Hezbollah, protecting the world close to the Israeli border.
As a part of the Lebanese authorities’s push to disarm non-state teams, some Palestinian factions in Lebanon handed over weapons in a number of refugee camps final yr to the Lebanese authorities.
Hamas and its Islamic Jihad ally haven’t introduced plans to disarm in Lebanon.
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