Not less than six individuals killed in Israeli drone strike on Lebanese capital, state media report.
Senior Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri has been killed in an Israeli drone strike on Beirut’s southern suburb of Dahiyeh, the Palestinian group and Lebanese media shops say.
Al-Arouri was killed on Tuesday in a “treacherous Zionist strike”, Hamas stated on its official channel. Hamas politburo member Izzat al-Sharq known as it a “cowardly assassination”.
Al-Arouri was a senior official in Hamas’s politburo however was identified to be deeply concerned in its navy affairs. He had beforehand headed the group’s presence within the occupied West Financial institution.
Lebanon’s state-run Nationwide Information Company stated the blast killed at the very least six individuals and was carried out by an Israeli drone.
There was no quick remark from Israel.
Lebanon’s prime minister condemned the killing, saying the assault “goals to attract Lebanon” additional into the Israel-Hamas conflict.
“Prime Minister Najib Mikati condemned the explosion within the southern suburbs of Beirut that killed and injured many,” his workplace stated in an announcement.
The assault “goals to attract Lebanon into a brand new part of confrontations” with Israel at a time when Hamas ally Hezbollah has been exchanging each day cross-border hearth with Israeli forces in northern Israel, the assertion stated.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had threatened to kill al-Arouri earlier than Israel’s newest assault on the besieged Gaza Strip.
For the reason that heavy exchanges of fireplace started on October 8 on the Lebanese-Israeli border, the combating has been concentrated just a few kilometres from the border, however on a number of events, Israel’s air drive has hit what it stated had been Hezbollah positions deeper inside Lebanon.
