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The deputy head of the Islamic Hamas political office, Saleh al-Aruri, was reportedly killed in an explosion in Beirut. According to multiple reports, Hamas and two Lebanese security officials confirmed Aruri's “assassination” in their official media outlets on Tuesday.
02.01.2024 17.33
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Shortly before, the dpa, among others, had reported on Aruri's death. The dpa learned of this from Hezbollah militia circles after the explosion on Tuesday night. The Hezbollah-affiliated al-Manar television station also reported that Aruri was dead.
Lebanese state media initially reported that four people were killed in an Israeli drone strike on a Hamas office in a Beirut suburb. “A hostile Israeli drone struck a Hamas office in al-Musharrafiya, near al-Shark Sweets,” Lebanese state news agency NNA reported.
AP/Nariman El-Mofty The deputy head of the Islamic Hamas political office, Saleh al-Aruri, 2017
Hezbollah militia stronghold
“The vice-president of the Hamas political office, Sheikh Saleh al-Aruri, was martyred in a Zionist attack in Beirut,” Hamas announced on its official television channel al-Aqsa TV and in its other media outlets. An AFP photographer at the scene in Beirut saw two floors of a building destroyed and vehicles damaged. Ambulances rushed to the scene of the attack.
The area is a stronghold of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia. The information cannot be independently verified. The Israeli military told the BBC it would not comment on foreign media reports.
Portal/Ahmad Al-Kerdi Four people were reportedly killed in the attack on a Hamas office in a Beirut suburb
It is the first Israeli attack on a target in the Lebanese capital since the war between Israel and Hamas began on October 7 – and the first targeted killing of a senior Palestinian official by Israel. Until now, clashes between the Israeli army and the Lebanese militia Hezbollah – an ally of the Palestinian Hamas – have been limited to the border areas in southern Lebanon.