Hamas’ Palestinian number two, Saleh al-Arouri, was killed in an Israeli strike on a Beirut suburb Tuesday night, the Palestinian movement and two Lebanese security officials said. The attack killed a total of six people, the official Lebanese news agency said. This is the first time since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip that Israel has struck the Lebanese capital. Clashes between the Israeli army and Lebanese Hezbollah, an ally of Palestinian Hamas, have so far been limited to border areas in southern Lebanon.
Saleh al-Arouri was killed along with his bodyguards in an Israeli strike on a Hamas office in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, a stronghold of Iran-backed Hezbollah, a Lebanese security official said. An AFP photographer at the scene saw two floors of the building blown up and cars in the area damaged as ambulances rushed to reach them.
“Zionist strike in Beirut”
Hamas confirmed on Tuesday that its number two had been “killed” in an Israeli strike in Beirut, in a statement carried by the movement’s media. “The martyrdom of the vice-president of the Hamas political bureau, Sheikh Saleh al-Arouri, during the Zionist strike in Beirut,” the movement said in a statement broadcast by its official channel Al-Aqsa TV and other media.
The Israeli strike killed four people, according to the Lebanese National News Agency (ANI). Saleh Arouri, accused by Israel of organizing numerous terrorist attacks, was elected in 2017 as deputy head of the Hamas politburo Ismail Haniyeh, thus officially becoming number two in the Islamist movement. After spending a total of almost twenty years in Israeli prisons, he was released in 2010 on the condition that he go into exile and live in Lebanon from then on.
Source: Le Parisien
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