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The Israeli military said it killed a Fatah official, Khalil Hussein Khalil Al-Maqdah, in Lebanon's southern city of Sidon in an airstrike on Wednesday, marking the first such reported attack on a senior member of Fatah in more than 10 months of cross-border clashes between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah.
The Israeli military said Maqdah was the brother of Mounir Maqdah, who heads the Lebanese branch of Fatah's armed wing, and accused them both of "directing terror attacks and smuggling weapons and funds designated for terrorist activities" to the West Bank.
It also alleged that the pair "collaborate on behalf of" Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
According to the AFP news agency, the Fatah official was killed in a strike on his car in Sidon.
The "assassination of a Fatah official is further proof that Israel wants to ignite a full-scale war in the region," Tawfiq Tirawy, a member of Fatah's central committee, later told AFP.
(With input from AFP)