The Lebanese Shiite militia party Hezbollah has assured that this Tuesday’s attack in Beirut that has resulted in the death of the ‘number two’ of the political arm of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Saleh al-Arouri, “will not remain unanswered or punished.”

It’s a statement picked up by the Lebanese news agency NNAHezbollah has assured that its fighters are prepared to retaliate for an attack that they attribute to the Israeli Army, although Israel has not yet commented on the matter.

In fact, Hezbollah has warned that this episode represents “a dangerous event in the course of the war between the enemy and the resistance axis“, alluding to Israel and Hamas; and denounced that it is “a serious attack against Lebanon, its people, its security and its sovereignty.”

“The criminal enemy, who after 90 days of crimes, massacres and destruction has not been able to subjugate Gaza (…) nor the rest of the proud cities, fields and villages, is resorting to a policy of murder and physical liquidation of everyone who worked, planned, lcarried out or supported the heroic Al Aqsa Flood operation“, reads the writing.

Following this, Hezbollah has announced up to nine operations against Israeli positions on the other side of the border with Lebanon and that would have left numerous Israeli soldiers injured, according to the Lebanese television network Al Mayadin, related to the Shiite militia.

At least seven people, including Al-Arouri, and other Hamas membershave died and several others have been injured after a drone attack on a Palestinian militia office located in Mushrifiya, in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, Beirut.

Al-Arouri had resided in Lebanon since 2018, and in 2010 he was released after spending twelve years in Israeli prisons. Considered the ‘number two’ of the political arm of Hamas and one of the commanders of the Al Qassam Brigades, is attributed responsibility for several attacks against Israel from Lebanese soil and is identified as one of the main intermediaries in the release of hostages taken on October 7.

The news has quickly received a response from the Lebanese authorities, Iran or from the Palestinian militia itself, which accuse Israel of being responsible for the attack. However, the Israeli authorities have not commented and the local press suggests that Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet has ordered his ministers not to speak out on the matter.