This Tuesday, Iran strongly condemned the attack in Lebanon that killed Saleh al Arouri, number two in the political wing of the Palestinian movement Hamas, and warned that this death “will further motivate the fight against Israel.”
“The blood of the martyr will certainly ignite once again the veins of resistance and motivation to fight against the Zionist occupier, not only in Palestine, but in the region and among all defenders of freedom around the world,” said the spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Affairs of Iran, whose regime supports the anti-Israel Palestinian movements Hamas and Hezbollah.
Nasser Kanaani stressed that this attack attributed to Israel by Lebanon and Hamas is the result of “the impotence and the harsh and irreparable” defeat of the Israeli troops “against the Palestinian resistance groups and the resilient Palestinian nation,” according to the Iranian agency IRNA. .
The Iranian diplomatic spokesperson condemned what he considers a violation of Lebanon’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and called on international organizations, especially the United Nations Security Council, similar to what Lebanon has already announced, to provide a response. “immediate and effective.” response to what happened.
Israeli authorities have not yet confirmed who was responsible for this attack in Beirut.
Hamas revealed on its official Al-Aqsa television channel that the number two of the political wing of the Palestinian Islamist movement, Saleh al-Arouri, was killed today in an Israeli attack in the suburbs of Beirut.
According to a Lebanese security official cited by France-Presse, al-Arouri was killed along with his bodyguards in an Israeli attack targeting the Hamas office in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, a Hezbollah stronghold.
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported that the resulting explosion from an Israeli drone killed six people.
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This is the first time since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas, which began on October 7, 2023, that Tel Aviv forces have attacked the Lebanese capital.
The clashes between the Israeli Army and the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas, have so far been limited to the border areas of southern Lebanon, when several warnings have been repeated in the Arab world and in the international community about the fear of The conflict spreads in the Gaza Strip, Palestine and other regions of the Middle East.
Later, in a statement, the presidency of the Lebanese Council of Ministers stated that Mikati ordered the presentation of an urgent complaint to the UN Security Council, “in the context of the flagrant attack on Lebanese sovereignty.”
Al-Arouri was one of the founders of Hamas’s military wing and led the Palestinian group’s presence in the West Bank.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to kill him even before the current war against Hamas.
In Lebanon since 2018, al-Arouri was detained in Israeli prisons for 12 years before being released in 2010 and is blamed for several attacks against Israel from Lebanese soil.
More recently, he was one of Hamas’s chief negotiators in the release of hostages taken by his group in the October 7 attack on Israel.
A month ago, speaking to Al Jazeera television, he said the remaining prisoners were soldiers or former soldiers and would not be released until Israel ended its attacks on the Gaza Strip.
The most recent conflict between Israel and Hamas was triggered after an unprecedented attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement on Israeli territory on October 7 of last year, massacring 1,140 people, mostly civilians and including around 400 soldiers, according to official figures. from Tel Aviv.
In retaliation, Israel, which has vowed to eliminate the Palestinian movement, launched a large-scale offensive in the Gaza Strip, where, according to the local government, more than 22,000 people have already died, mostly women, children and adolescents. and injured: more than 57 thousand, mostly civilians.
Source: TSF
