Mourners gather in Beirut for funeral of Hamas commander Saleh Arouri

Описание: (4 Jan 2024)
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Beirut - 4 January 2024
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Mourners formed a funeral procession in Beirut on Thursday for the deceased Hamas commander Saleh Arouri.

The drone strike on Arouri, the deputy political head of Hamas and a founder of the group’s military wing, follows a long line of suspected Israeli killings of senior militant leaders over the years.

While Israel did not claim responsibility for Tuesday's blast, it had all the hallmarks of an Israeli attack.

Both Hamas and Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group immediately blamed Israel.

The killing of the top Hamas commander in an apparent Israeli airstrike on a Beirut apartment on Tuesday has given Israel an important symbolic achievement in its three-month-old war against the Islamic militant group.

Israel rarely takes responsibility for targeted assassinations or comments publicly on its forces' forays abroad.

It took 25 years for the country to acknowledge its role in killing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s deputy, Khalil al-Wazir, known as Abu Jihad, in Tunisia in 1988.

The strike that killed Arouri came just over a week after another suspected Israeli airstrike outside of Damascus killed Seyed Razi Mousavi, a longtime adviser of the Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard in Syria.

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