Israel carried out the attack that killed the number two of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, Saleh al-Arouri, this Tuesday, in Beirut, a US Defense source told Agence France-Presse (APF).
“It is an Israeli attack,” this official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP.
Washington on Wednesday accused the Hamas leader of being a “brutal terrorist” with “civilian blood” on his hands. In Lebanon since 2018, al-Arouri led the Palestinian group’s presence in the West Bank and was detained in Israeli prisons for 12 years before being released in 2010, blamed for several attacks against Israel from Lebanese soil.
Al-Arouri was one of Hamas’s main negotiators in the release of hostages taken by the group in the October 7 attack on Israel.
Source: TSF
