Hamas confirms the death of Saleh al Arouri in the drone bombing in Beirut

The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas confirmed the death this Tuesday of the number two in its political office, Saleh al Arouri, in the bombing with an Israeli drone against an office of the group on the outskirts of Beirut, where five other people also died.

In a statement, Hamas blamed “the Zionist occupation”alluding to Israel, of murdering “cowardly” to Palestinian leaders “inside and out of Palestine”.

The Palestinian Islamist group assured that the bombing against its office in Beirut “proves once again the complete failure of this enemy to achieve any of its belligerent objectives in the Gaza Strip”

“They will not be able to break the will and resistance of our people”he added in the statement.

Hamas’s armed wing, the al-Qasam Brigades, of which Saleh al-Arouri was co-founder, promised “a response to all crimes” against the Palestinians.

In a statement, he assured that Saleh al Arouri died “with great pride and honor” and stressed that “The assassination of leaders will not deter us from our national duty to defend our people and only increases our determination to resist.”

“We mourn (the death of) the great national leader” Saleh Al-Arouri “and his brothers, the martyrs, after a cowardly and treacherous assassination carried out by the Zionist enemy (Israel),” The Palestinian group Islamic Jihad reacted in a statement.

EFE consulted a spokesperson for the Israeli Army about what happened and is awaiting a response.

At least two Israeli projectiles hit an office of the Palestinian movement in the Msharafiye area, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, and vehicles parked in front of it this afternoon.

Al Arouri, a member of Hamas’s political office and one of the founders of its armed wing, was one of the most prominent exiled leaders of the group, which has several representatives in Lebanon, as well as in other countries in the region. region.

In addition, he was considered one of the Hamas leaders who planned armed actions against Israel from abroad.

The Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah controls most of the neighborhoods south of the capital where the attack took place, an area that represents one of its main strongholds in the country and which had not been attacked since the war it waged against Israel in the summer. of 2006.

Since last October 8, within the framework of the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah has also been engaged in intense crossfire with Israeli forces from its side of the border.