Saleh al-Arouri, founder of the Islamist movement’s military wing, was killed in an Israeli drone attack. The strike hit an apartment in a Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut.
Hamas number two, Saleh al-Arouri, as well as several other executives of the Palestinian Islamist group, were killed Tuesday evening in an Israeli drone attack on the outskirts of Beirut, Lebanon, in a Hezbollah stronghold.
According to one of these officials, Saleh al-Arouri was killed along with his bodyguards in an Israeli strike that targeted the Hamas office where “a meeting of Palestinian groups”.
Reacting to the attack, the Palestinian Islamist group vowed that its assassination would not end its “resistance”. Hezbollah, for its part, promised that this “assassination” would not stay “unpunished”. The Israeli army says it is ready to “any scenario” after this attack.
For fear of an escalation of the conflict, the United Nations called on all parties to exercise the greatest restraint.
The leader of Lebanese Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, is due to speak in a highly anticipated speech this Wednesday.
After the announcement of the death of Saleh al-Arouri, many Palestinians gathered in the streets of Ramallah, in the occupied territories of the West Bank, where violence committed by Israeli settlers against Palestinians has increased since the start of the conflict.
Palestinian Red Crescent bombed
Meanwhile, fighting continues in the Gaza Strip. Palestinians reported heavy airstrikes and artillery fire in the southern town of Khan Yunis and agricultural areas to the east.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said Israel bombed its headquarters, killing five people. At least 14,000 displaced people have found shelter in the building.
Fighting is also ongoing in and around the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. The Israeli military issued orders to evacuate people living in parts of the nearby Nuseirat camp, where an Israeli strike leveled a building on Tuesday, killing at least eight people. Several children were pulled from the rubble.
