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Saleh al-Arouri, the deputy head of Hamas and two leaders of its militant group were killed in an explosion in Lebanon on Tuesday that the group described as a "treacherous Zionist strike".
Ismail Haniyeh who is Hamas's leader spoke in a television interview that seven members of the group were killed in the strike in a suburb of Beirut, the Lebanese capital.
Photo: AFP
Mr. al-Arouri was a founder of Hamas’s military wing, the Qassam Brigades, and was elected the deputy chairman of the group’s political bureau in October 2017. His official role was head of Hamas in the West Bank and deputy to Mr Haniyeh, but regional security officials said that Mr. al-Arouri spent much of his time in recent years in Beirut, where he served as a sort of ambassador to Hezbollah, the politically powerful Lebanese armed group.
Mr Haniyeh said two leaders of its armed wing, Samir Findi and Azzam al-Aqra, were among those killed in the blast, which Lebanon’s civil defence agency said occurred just before 6 p.m. local time.
The Hamas leader said the strike had violated Lebanon’s sovereignty. Israel, he added, “will not succeed in its attempts to break our people’s will to persevere.”
哈馬斯宣布以色列在黎巴嫩貝魯特殺害副首腦
週二，哈馬斯副領導人薩利赫·阿魯裡（Saleh al-Arouri）及其武裝派別的兩名領導人在黎巴嫩發生的爆炸中喪生，該組織稱此次爆炸為「猶太復國主義襲擊」。
哈馬斯領導人伊斯梅爾·哈尼亞在電視演講中表示，該組織七名成員在黎巴嫩首都貝魯特郊區的襲擊中喪生。 《紐約時報》核實的現場影片顯示，一棟高層建築前至少有一輛汽車被火焰吞沒，數十人聚集在該地區。
以色列總理本傑明·內塔尼亞胡的辦公室沒有立即發表評論，軍方發言人也拒絕在周二晚上的新聞發布會上討論此事。 不過，兩名美國高級官員證實，以色列對這次攻擊負責。
一位因討論敏感的內部討論而要求匿名的官員表示，這很可能是以色列對哈馬斯官員或與10 月7 日導致1,200 人死亡的致命襲擊有任何联系的哈馬斯官員或特工進行的眾多秘密襲擊中的第一次。
阿魯裡先生是哈馬斯軍事組織卡薩姆旅的創始人，並於2017 年10 月被選為該組織政治局副主席。他的正式職位是哈馬斯西岸領導人和哈尼亞先生的副手，但區域安全官員表示，阿魯裡近年來大部分時間都在貝魯特度過，他在那裡擔任駐真主黨（政治上強大的黎巴嫩武裝組織）的大使。
哈尼亞先生表示，該武裝組織的兩名領導人薩米爾·芬迪和阿扎姆·阿克拉在爆炸中喪生，黎巴嫩民防機構稱爆炸發生在下午 6 點左右。 當地時間。
哈馬斯領導人表示，這次襲擊侵犯了黎巴嫩的主權。 他補充說，以色列“破壞我們人民堅持下去的意志的企圖不會成功。”
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