Senior Hamas leader Saleh Arouri was killed by a strike in Beirut on Tuesday, an attack that Lebanese officials pinned on Israel.
Lebanese state media claimed several people perished in the blast carried out by an Israeli drone, The Associated Press reported. Officials with Hamas and Hezbollah said Arouri was among the dead.
Israel had not taken responsibility for the strike as of press time, but the blast does come as Israeli forces continue to fight Hamas in the Gaza Strip nearly three months after the group’s terrorist attacks on Israeli soil that killed about 1,200 people and led to hundreds more being taken hostage.
“Whoever did it, it must be clear: That this was not an attack on the Lebanese state,” Mark Regev, an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, told MSNBC, according to Reuters. He added, “Whoever did this did a surgical strike against the Hamas…
