Hamas TV says Israel has killed group's deputy head in Beirut

Published: 07:19 AM, 3 Jan, 2024
Hamas TV says Israel has killed group's deputy head in Beirut
AFP

 







Six people, including the deputy leader of Hamas Saleh al-Aruri, were killed Tuesday in an Israeli drone strike on Beirut's southern suburbs, state media said giving a new toll.


"The number of martyrs... has risen to six," in a drone strike that targeted a meeting of Palestinian factions at a Hamas office in Beirut's southern suburbs, a stronghold of the Iran-backed Hezbollah, Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA) said. Earlier it reported four dead.







Hamas vows Israel's killing of deputy head will not end 'resistance'







Hamas vowed Tuesday that the killing of the group's deputy in Lebanon will not "undermine the continued brave resistance" in Gaza where the Palestinian militant group is battling Israeli forces.







"It proves once more the utter failure of the enemy to achieve any of its aggressive goals in the Gaza Strip," senior Hamas official Izzat al-Rishq said in a statement.











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