Firefighters try to extinguish the flames devouring Khalil Maqdah's car, after an Israeli strike in Saida, Aug. 21, 2024. (Credit: Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)
Saida has once again come under Israeli fire. On Aug. 21, an Israeli airstrike targeted the vehicle of Khalil Maqdah in Lebanon’s third largest city. The latter was a high-ranking official of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of the Fatah movement, led by his brother, Mounir Maqdah. Since Oct. 7, Maqdah’s assassination is the first against a leading figure of this relatively moderate Palestinian organization that has not been involved in the ongoing war and is tolerated by the Israelis.In March, Israel had threatened Mounir Maqdah, one of the main Palestinian leaders in Lebanon, who gravitates in the Fatah’s orbit but is also reputed to be close to its Islamist rival, Hamas. Read also Who was Khalil al-Maqdah, the Fatah member killed in the Israeli airstrike in Saida? In particular, he was accused of smuggling Iranian...
Saida has once again come under Israeli fire. On Aug. 21, an Israeli airstrike targeted the vehicle of Khalil Maqdah in Lebanon’s third largest city. The latter was a high-ranking official of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of the Fatah movement, led by his brother, Mounir Maqdah. Since Oct. 7, Maqdah’s assassination is the first against a leading figure of this relatively moderate Palestinian organization that has not been involved in the ongoing war and is tolerated by the Israelis.In March, Israel had threatened Mounir Maqdah, one of the main Palestinian leaders in Lebanon, who gravitates in the Fatah’s orbit but is also reputed to be close to its Islamist rival, Hamas. Read also Who was Khalil al-Maqdah, the Fatah member killed in the Israeli airstrike in Saida? In particular, he was accused of smuggling...