Beirut: Senior Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri was killed on Tuesday night time in an Israeli drone strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs of Dahiyeh, a stronghold of allied Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, three safety sources informed Reuters.
In response to questions from Reuters, the Israeli navy mentioned it doesn’t reply to reviews within the overseas media.
Folks seek for survivors inside an condominium following an enormous explosion within the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, Lebanon.Credit score: AP
Mark Regev, an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, informed MSNBC that Israel had not taken duty for this assault, however “whoever did it, it have to be clear: That this was not assault an assault on the Lebanese state”.
“Whoever did this did a surgical strike towards the Hamas management,” Regev informed MSNBC in an interview.
Arouri was a senior official in Hamas’s politburo and was additionally one of many founders of its navy wing, the Qassam Brigades, which carried out a lethal assault in Israeli territory on October 7. The U.S. had final 12 months supplied $US5 million ($7.3 million) for info on him.
Saleh Arouri in 2018.Credit score: AP
Hamas confirmed Arouri’s killing through the affiliated Al-Aqsa radio. Hamas politburo member Izzat al-Sharq mentioned it was a “cowardly assassination.”
The Israeli drone struck a Hamas workplace in Dahiyeh on Tuesday night time, leaving a complete of six folks lifeless, Lebanon’s state information company reported. Safety sources and medics couldn’t instantly determine the opposite three killed.
Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister Najib Mikati condemned the explosion as a “new Israeli crime” and mentioned it was an try to tug Lebanon into struggle.