Who had been the Hamas officers killed in Beirut? | Israel Struggle on Gaza Information

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Together with chief Saleh al-Arouri, different important members of Hamas died in Tuesday’s blast.

Different important Hamas officers died in Tuesday’s drone strike that killed senior chief Saleh al-Arouri, harming the armed group’s navy capabilities in Lebanon throughout Israel’s warfare on Gaza.

In accordance with Lebanese state media, the strike on a Hamas workplace within the Hezbollah stronghold of Dahiyeb, a southern suburb of Beirut, killed seven folks. Hamas described the killing of al-Arouri on its official TV channel as “a “cowardly assassination” by Israel.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s adviser Mark Regev informed the United States-based TV information channel MSNBC that Israel had not taken accountability for the assault and added: “Whoever did it, it should be clear that this was not an assault on the Lebanese state.”

Here’s what we learn about al-Arouri and the six different Hamas officers killed within the drone assault within the Lebanese capital:

Saleh al-Arouri

Al-Arouri, 57, was the deputy chief of the Hamas political bureau. He was additionally one of many founding members of Hamas’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades.

After spending 15 years in an Israeli jail, al-Arouri was launched in 2007 and had been dwelling in exile in Lebanon. He was a Hamas spokesperson and was one of many negotiators of a deal that noticed 1,027 Palestinian and international prisoners exchanged for a single Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, in 2011.

Initially of December, al-Arouri was the Hamas official who informed Al Jazeera {that a} prisoner alternate beneath which extra captives could be launched from Gaza wouldn’t happen and not using a ceasefire.

On October 31, Israeli forces destroyed al-Arouri’s home in Aroura close to Ramallah within the occupied West Financial institution. Israel blamed him for assaults on Israelis within the space. He had acquired a number of loss of life threats from Israel earlier than the warfare broke out on October 7.

America designated al-Arouri a “international terrorist” in 2015 and issued a $5m reward for data resulting in his identification or location.

Azzam al-Aqra

Al-Aqra, 54, was a number one commander of the Qassam Brigades’ navy operations exterior Gaza. As a younger man, he was arrested twice for brief intervals. In 1992, the yr that al-Arouri was imprisoned in Israel, he was exiled to Marj al-Zuhur in Lebanon together with 415 different members of Hamas and different Palestinian armed teams.

In 2022, Israeli media alleged he had plotted to penetrate Israeli communications networks.

He settled in Lebanon, married there and was a key member of the group there. He was also called Abu Abdullah.

Samir Fendi

Samir Fendi was a senior chief of the Qassam Brigades and its high commander in southern Lebanon. He was also called Abu Amer.

In July, an Israeli tv channel reported that Shin Guess, Israel’s home intelligence company, had included him and al-Arouri on an inventory of targets for assassination.

Additionally killed

The drone strike additionally killed 4 different Hamas members: Mahmoud Zaki Shaheen, Mohammed al-Rayes, Mohammed Bashasha and Ahmed Hamoud.