The deputy leader of Hamas’ political wing has been assassinated in an alleged Israeli drone strike in Beirut.
Six people including the senior Palestinian official were killed in an explosion near the terrorist group’s office in Lebanon’s capital city.
Saleh al-Arouri was Hamas’s deputy chairman of the political bureau, military commander in the West Bank and second in command to Ismail Haniyeh.
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, had vowed to kill him even before war broke out on October 7, while the US had placed a $5 million bounty on his head.
“Four people were martyred and a number of others injured when the Hamas office was targeted”, said Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA).
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