The Deputy Leader of Hamas Saleh Al-Arouri has been killed in a drone strike that hit the group’s office in Southern Beirut, while record has it that he (Saleh Al-Arouri) was killed alongside three others in the attack.
Penpushing reports that the 57-year-old leader had served several terms in Israeli jails and was released in March 2010 as part of efforts to reach a larger prisoner swap for Gilad Shalit, an Israel Defense Force (IDF) corporal kidnapped by Hamas in 2006.
The report from Lebanon has it that Hamas office was the target of the drone attack in southern Beirut, just as sources recalled that Al-Arouri was later involved in negotiating the deal that led to the release of more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails in return for the freeing of Shalit in 2011.
Penpushing further reports that the deceased Deputy Leader of Hamas relocated to Istanbul but was forced to move when Israel patched up ties with Turkey, while he was also one of the Hamas officials most closely connected to Iran and the Hezbollah group in Lebanon.
The records equally showed that the late Hamas leader was in exile in Lebanon after spending 15 years in an Israeli jail, and in recent weeks, he acted as a spokesperson for Hamas and its strategy in the war in Gaza.
Penpushing also reports that Al-Arouri told Al Jazeera in December that Hamas would not discuss a prisoner exchange deal with Israel unless Israel ended the attack on Gaza, and in October, Israeli forces demolished his home near Ramallah.
The killed Deputy Leader of Hamas it is recalled declared that the resistance was ready for all the military scenarios, boasting that there was no fear or worry for the resistance and that his troops will win, until his life was eventually terminated
Penpushing reports that the United States of America (USA) government designated him as a global terrorist in 2015 and put out a five-million-dollar reward for information on him, and in celebrating his death Israel’s former envoy to the United Nations (UN), Danny Danon, in an X post gave kudos to the security forces behind the killing
“I congratulate the IDF, the Shin Bet, the Mossad and the security forces for killing senior Hamas official Salah al-Aaruri in Beirut. Anyone who was involved in the 7/10 massacre should know that we will reach out to them and close an account with them’, he added
Penpushing further reports that Israel has continued its attack on Gaza since October 7, 2023 when Hamas militants attacked Israel, causing about 1,200 deaths, while over 20,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the Israeli invasion.
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