The Israeli army demolished Palestinian Hamas house number two in the occupied West Bank. Eyewitnesses said a “large” Israeli force entered the village of Arura, 20 kilometers north of Ramallah, at dawn on Tuesday. She used explosives to destroy the two-story home of Saleh al-Arouri, who has been living in exile in Lebanon for several years, village residents said. The house was empty.
The IDF confirmed in a press release that they had blown up the house and released a video of the demolition in which we see the building collapsing in a huge cloud of white smoke.
IDF forces destroyed the house of Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Aruri in the village of Arura, north of Ramallah. Israeli forces temporarily took over the house 10 days ago, turning it into the local Shin Bet headquarters. Like many Hamas leaders, al-Arouri is currently in exile (Lebanon). https://t.co/EBj6ntW6pf pic.twitter.com/yDHUQhqjRH
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According to village mayor Ali al-Khasib and witnesses, on October 21 the army carried out a raid in Aroor, during which about twenty people were arrested, including Saleh al-Arouri’s brother and nine of his nephews. She then seized the home of Saleh al-Arouri and interrogated dozens of residents of that village in the West Bank, Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967, these sources said.
Saleh Arouri, accused by Israel of organizing numerous terrorist attacks, was elected in 2017 as deputy head of the Hamas Politburo Ismail Haniyeh, officially becoming number two in the Islamist movement. After spending a total of almost twenty years in Israeli prisons, Saleh al-Arouri was released in 2010 on the condition that he go into exile.
Following the bloody Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 and the Jewish state’s response in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army said it had killed several leaders of the Palestinian Islamist movement. According to Israeli authorities, more than 1,400 people were killed on the Israeli side, most of them civilians. Israeli retaliatory bombing in the Gaza Strip has killed more than 8,300 people, the vast majority of them civilians, according to the Hamas Health Ministry.
Source: Le Parisien
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