Senior Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri was killed in an Israeli drone strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs of Dahiyeh on Tuesday night, security forces told Reuters.
The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), however, refused to confirm or deny the killing saying it does not respond to reports in the foreign media. Arouri was not only a senior official in Hamas’s politburo but was also involved in its military affairs.
Earlier in the day, the Israeli army launched attacks on targets in Syria and Lebanon, as part of its ongoing war in the Middle East.
“The [Israeli army] struck military infrastructure belonging to the Syrian Army,” the Israeli military said in a post on the social media platform X on Tuesday.
“[Israeli military] fighter jets also struck Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure in Lebanon,” the IDF added, promising it would “continue to operate against any threat to Israel’s sovereignty”.
Israel’s military has been engaged in cross-border fighting with Hezbollah and has launched repeated air raids on Syria since its war since its war against the Palestinian militant group Hamas began in Gaza on October 7, 2023.
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