Hamas deputy politburo chief Saleh Arouri was killed in an Israeli drone strike in a Beirut suburb. Hezbollah security sources made this known to the French-Lebanese newspaper l'Orient de Jour.
The news was confirmed by Hamas television, which spoke of "assassination in a cowardly Zionist attack".
However, the location of the killing (there are six victims in total) triggers reactions that suggest an escalation. Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati condemned the Israeli attack that led to Arouri's killing. The military operation, we read in a note released by the prime minister, "aims to drag Lebanon into a new phase of the war" with Israel .
An American bounty of 5 million euros has been hanging on Saleh Arouri's head since 2015, when the United States government designated him a "terrorist"
global". Al Jazeera writes this online, also recalling that in October Israeli forces demolished his house near Ramallah.
(Unioneonline)
