Israeli strikes kill Hamas leader in Lebanon and three Palestinian leaders in Beirut

Hamas said its leader in Lebanon, Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin was killed, along with his wife, son, and daughter

A man walks on rubble at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut’s southern suburbs Picture: AP Photo/Hassan Ammar

The Palestinian militant group Hamas said an Israeli airstrike killed its leader in Lebanon in the city of Tyre on Monday, and another Palestinian organisation said three of its leaders were killed in a strike in central Beirut - the first such hit inside the capital's limits.

The killings were the latest in a two-week wave of intensified Israeli attacks on militant targets in Lebanon, part of a conflict now also stretching from the Palestinian territories of Gaza and the occupied West Bank, to Yemen, and in Israel itself.