The leader of Hamas' military wing was killed in Lebanon. It happened during an Israeli air strike near Tripoli, the northernmost city in Lebanon, reports CNN. The paper cites a joint statement, in which the Israel Defense Forces and Israeli intelligence agency Shin Bet said they killed Saeed Atallah Ali,

There was no warning before the strike late Wednesday, which hit an apartment in central Beirut not far from the United Nations headquarters, the prime minister’s office, and parliament.

Powerful new explosions have rocked Beirut’s southern suburbs around midnight as Israel expands its bombardment of the Hezbollah and Hamas militant groups in Lebanon. Israel also struck a

The strikes came after days of bombing by Israel of Beirut suburbs considered strongholds for Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah, killing its leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, and possibly his potential successor.

Hamas said that the strike in Tripoli killed one of its field commanders. Another strike in eastern Lebanon killed Hamas’s “executive authority” in Lebanon.