Israeli military strikes have killed at least seven people in Lebanon, including a child and two elderly people, Lebanese state media reported on Sunday (21), as clashes between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah continue.
A child, a woman and two elderly people were killed in the city of Sahmar, in the Bekaa Valley, according to the NNA (Lebanon National News Agency). Further south, two Palestinians were killed in the Rashidieh refugee camp in Tyre, the agency said.
The Israel Defense Forces told CNN that they “had no knowledge of any IDF activity in these locations” since midnight local time this Sunday.
Following the outbreak of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah in early March, Palestinian communities were among the “most exposed to military activity”, according to the non-profit organization American Near East Refugee Aid (Anera).
It is estimated that around 222 thousand currently, according to a report by Anera.
Many began settling there during the Nakba, or “the catastrophe,” of 1948, Anera added, when more than 700,000 Palestinians fled or were forcibly expelled from their homes following the 1948 and 1949 war in what is now Israel.
People living in refugee camps on the outskirts of Tyre, including Rashidieh, Burj El Shemali and El Buss, face “recurrent insecurity, nearby strikes and periods of isolation”, the Anera report said.
“For Palestinian communities already living in prolonged precariousness, the war has eliminated any sense of security,” the report added.
