Hamas has confirmed his death. In addition, the Israeli drone killed five other people. Lebanese Prime Minister Nayib Mikati has condemned the attack, calling it an “Israeli crime.”
At least one person has been killed in a drone attack on one of the Hamas offices in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon six peopleincluding the ‘number two’ of the political branch of the Palestinian militia, Saleh al-Arouri.
In a statement, Hamas blamed “the Zionist occupation,” referring to Israel, for the “cowardly” murder of Palestinian leaders “inside and outside Palestine.”
The attack, which also injured several people, took place at one of the Hamas offices in Mushrifiya, located in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, the Lebanese news agency NNA said.
In addition to being the ‘number two’ of the political branch of the Palestinian militia Al Arouri, he was also one of the commanders of the military branch, the Al Qassam Brigades.
Al Arouri was held in Israeli prisons for 12 years before being released in 2010. He is accused of several attacks on Israel from Lebanese territory. He was one of the key intermediaries in the release of those captured by Hamas on October 7.
The Prime Minister of Lebanon, Nayib Mikatihas condemned the attack, calling it an “Israeli crime.” “This attack is a new Israeli crime that is absolutely aimed at leading Lebanon into a new phase of confrontations, after the continuous daily attacks in the south, which have caused a large number of martyrs and wounded,” Mikati denounced in a statement issued was released through the Israeli military. social network
Mikati has noted that this attack definitively draws Lebanon into a conflict, despite its efforts to distance itself from the Israeli campaign in the Gaza Strip. “We call on the countries concerned to put pressure on Israel to stop attacking,” he asked.
At the same time, he has denounced Israel’s resort to “exporting its failures” in the Gaza Strip to Lebanon’s southern border in order to impose a “new reality” of war. “Lebanon is, as it has always been, bound by international resolutions” on this conflict, he stressed.
Israel “is not tired of killing and destroying everyone, near and far (…) the decision to go to war is in the hands of Israel, and what is needed is to deter the country and stop its aggression” , the Lebanese Prime Minister emphasized.
Source: EITB
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