At least 13 people have been killed in an Israeli drone strike on the Ain al-Hilwe Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, the Lebanese Health Ministry confirmed. At least four others were wounded in the attack, and the injured were being taken to a nearby hospital in critical condition. The Lebanese state news agency NNA reported that the strike targeted a car parked in the parking lot of a mosque in the camp near the coastal city of Sidon on Tuesday. Israel claims it was targeting Hamas members active inside the camp. “No threat to the northern border will be tolerated. Any Hamas activity in Lebanon will be met with strong action,” said Avighai Adreyi, the Israeli military’s Arabic-language spokesman. Hamas, however, rejected Israel’s claims. The group said it had no training center inside the refugee camp and called the attack a “barbaric attack on innocent people.” Earlier on the same day, Israel attacked two vehicles in another area of ​​southern Lebanon, killing two people. Since the start of the war in Gaza in October 2023, Israeli attacks on Palestinian group leaders in Lebanon have increased. The death toll from the Israeli aggression in Gaza has recently exceeded 69,483, with more than 170,000 injured. The day after the start of the war in Gaza, Lebanon’s Hezbollah began firing rockets into Israel, prompting Israel to launch shelling and airstrikes into Lebanon. The conflict gradually escalated into a full-scale war at the end of September 2024. More than 4,000 people were killed in Lebanon, many of them civilians. 127 people were killed in Israel, 80 of them soldiers. Despite a US-brokered ceasefire in November 2024, Israel has continued its attacks on Lebanon. According to the Lebanese Ministry of Health, more than 270 people have been killed and nearly 850 injured in Israeli attacks in the country since the ceasefire. Lebanese political analyst Karim Emil Bitar said, “Israel is violating the ceasefire almost every day. It is not right to blame the Lebanese government in this situation.” He added that according to the agreement of November 27, 2024, Israel was supposed to withdraw its troops from southern Lebanon by January 26, but they did not comply.