Fateh Sherif Abu Al-Amin, along with his wife, son, and daughter, were killed during an Israeli air strike near Tyre, Lebanon. The deaths were announced in a released statement that was posted on social media. 

“We mourn the martyrdom of the Palestinian people, our Arab and Islamic nation, the leader Fatah Sharif Abu Al-Amin, leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas in Lebanon and member of the movement’s leadership abroad, a martyr on the road to Jerusalem, and in the shadow of the epic of the Al-Aqsa Flood,” read a translated statement released by the Palestinian Press Agency. “And his wife, the martyred educator, Umayya Ibrahim Abdel Hamid. And his son, the martyr Amin Fath Sharif. And his martyred daughter, Wafaa Fath Sharif.”

“After a terrorist and criminal assassination operation that targeted him, his jihadist wife, his son and his daughter, following an air strike that targeted them all in their home at dawn today in the (Al-Bass) camp in southern Lebanon,” noted the statement.

Abu Al-Amin was referred to as a martyr for his “career full of work” helping Palestinian people.

“Brother leader Abu Al-Amin passed away as a martyr, in the blessed Battle of the Flood of Al-Aqsa, on the path of the martyr leaders of our movement and our people, after a career full of work in the service of our Palestinian people, their legitimate struggle, and their just cause,” the statement read.

The news of Abu Al-Amin’s death comes after the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine reported three of its members were killed during an Israeli air strike in Beirut on Monday morning.