An Israeli air strike on a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon has killed 13 people and wounded several others, state media and government officials have said.

It is the deadliest strike on Lebanon since a ceasefire in the Israel-Hezbollah war a year ago.

The drone strike hit a car in the car park of a mosque in the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp on the outskirts of the coastal city of Sidon, the state-run National News Agency said.

The Lebanese Health Ministry said 13 people were killed and several others were wounded in the air strike, without giving further details.

Hamas fighters in the area prevented journalists from reaching the scene, as ambulances rushed to evacuate the wounded and the dead.

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