The number two of the Palestinian Islamist movement HamasSaleh al-Arouri, died this Tuesday in a stroke by Israel south of Beirut, the capital of the Lebanon. This was reported by Hamas itself and the television channel of the Lebanese Islamist group Hezbollah.
The channel Al-Manarof Hezbollah, said that Al-Arouri He died at nightfall in the suburb of Mashrafiyah. Television images showed damaged cars and debris in a vast area in front of a block of buildings, and a fire in the distance.
Who was Saleh Al Arouri
According to the program Rewards for America’s JusticeAl-Arouri was one of the founders of the Izzedine al Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas. In October 2017, he was elected as deputy leader of the Hamas Political Office.
Al-Arouri financed and directed military operations of Hamas in the West Bank and was linked to several terrorist attacks, kidnappings and kidnappings.
In 2014 Al-Arouri Hamas authorship announced in the terrorist attack of June 12, 2014, where three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped and murdered in the West Bank, including Israeli and American citizen Naftali Fraenkel.
How Al-Arouri died
The channel Hezbollah’s Al-Manarsaid that Al-Arouri died after nightfall in an Israeli drone attack in the Mashrafiyah suburb and television images showed damaged cars and debris in a vast area in front of a block of buildings, and a fire in the distance.
“The cowardly murders carried out by the Zionist occupation against the leaders and symbols of our Palestinian people inside and outside Palestine will not break the will and firmness of our people, nor undermine the continuation of their courageous resistance,” he claimed it’s a statement senior Hamas official Izzat al-Rishqquoted by Times of Israel.
The attack “demonstrates once again the abject failure of the enemy in achieving any of its aggressive objectives in the Gaza Strip”indicated the text.
Israel does not issue any message about this fact
Israel has not yet commented about the incident that left three dead, according to the Lebanese National News Agency (ANN)although news sites linked to Hezbollah speak of six deaths.
In November, the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahusaid there was “given instructions” to “act against Hamas leaders wherever they are” in retaliation for the offensive by the group’s militiamen on October 7, when they murdered around 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and kidnapped around 240 people, including around twenty Argentines.
The number of deaths so far in the confrontation
At least 22,185 Palestinians, mostly women and childrenhave since died in Israeli bombings in the Gaza Strip and 57,035 were injured, the Ministry of Health local.
Source: Ambito
