Israel bombs Beirut, kills Hamas leader in precision strike.
The audacious attack hit Hamas’s office in Musharafieh, a southern suburb of Beirut. The television channel for Lebanon’s Hezbollah group said Arouri had been assassinated on Tuesday evening in an explosion along with five others while attending a meeting. A
Hamas official, Basem Naim, also said Arouri had been killed in the blast. The group said two other officials in its armed wing were also killed in the attack.
Hezbollah said the assassination was a “serious assault on Lebanon”, calling it a “dangerous development in the course of war between enemy and axis of resistance… [that] will not go without a response or punishment. The resistance has its finger on the trigger.”
Israeli military spokesperson, R Adm Daniel Hagari, said Israeli forces were in a state of “high readiness” and prepared for any scenario after the killing of Arouri.
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/02/senior-hamas-figure-saleh-al-arouri-killed-in-lebanon