Libanons ledare: ”Israel vill dra in oss i en ny fas”
Libanons premiärminister Najib Mikati fördömer drönarattacken mot en Hamaslokal söder om Beirut på tisdagen, rapporterar AFP. Israel, som inte kommenterat händelsen, har pekats ut av Libanon som ansvarig för attacken.
”Attacken syftar till att dra in Libanon i en ny fas av konfrontationer med Israel”, skriver premiärministerns kontor i ett uttalande.
En av de som dödades i attacken var Saleh al-Arouri, vice ordförande för Hamas politiska byrå och grundaren av terrorgruppens militära gren. I ett uttalande skriver Hamas att dödsbeskedet inte kommer att underminera ”det modiga motståndet” i Gaza.
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Saleh al-Arouri
Wikipedia (en)
Saleh al-Arouri (Arabic: صالح العاروري, also transliterated as Salah al-Arouri or Salih al-Aruri; 19 August 1966 – 2 January 2024) was a senior leader of Hamas and a founding commander of its military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. As of 2023, he is also said to be the deputy chairman of Hamas’s political bureau, and Hamas's military commander of the West Bank, although he currently lives in Lebanon. He has been in the US list of terrorist since 2015.He has been described as "a capable, charismatic, suspicious, and shrewd operator, with excellent connections". The government of the United States accuses al-Arouri of having been, "a high-ranking Hamas military leader dating back to his role as a Hamas student cell leader at Hebron University in the early 1990s."He also served as a recruiter, and was actively involved in raising and transferring funds on behalf of Hamas. He remains the subject of a $5,000,000 bounty by the Rewards for Justice Program. He is the most senior Palestinian politican assassinated in years.
On 2 January, 2024, al-Arori was assassinated in Beirut, Lebanon, through a precision airstrike conducted by the Israeli military.
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