The Islamic resistance movement Hamas said that the deputy head of the movement's political bureau, Saleh al-Arouri, was assassinated in a drone attack targeting a building housing a Hamas office in Beirut.
The movement added that two commanders of the Qassam Brigades were also killed in the attack.
Press sources have reported that martyrs have been martyred as a result of an explosion in the mishrifiya area in the southern suburb of Beirut that targeted a building housing an office of the Islamic resistance movement (Hamas).
Press sources from Beirut said that the explosion left significant damage to one of the buildings, where it seemed that one floor was completely blown up.
Ezzat al-Rishq, a member of the Political Bureau of the Hamas movement, said that the cowardly assassinations carried out by the Zionist occupation against the leaders and symbols of our Palestinian people inside and outside Palestine will not succeed in breaking the Will and steadfastness of our people, or harming the continuation of its valiant resistance; and they prove once again the failure of this terrible enemy to achieve any of its aggressive goals in the Gaza Strip.
ان القلب ليحزن وانا على فراقك لمحزونون رحمك الله ، انا لله وانا اليه راجعون
— غزة الآن - Gaza Now (@nowgnna) January 2, 2024
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Activists issued urgent calls for street marches now everywhere, in anger at the martyrdom of" Sheikh Saleh al-Arouri, " the senior national leader and deputy head of the Hamas Political Bureau.
Hamas: the assassination of Saleh al-Arouri, deputy head of the political bureau, and two leaders of the Qassam Brigades by an Israeli drone bombing on Beirut
