BEIRUT, Jan 3, 2024 (BSS/AFP) - Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah group warned that Israel's killing Tuesday of the deputy Hamas leader in a Beirut suburb they control "will not go unanswered or unpunished". An Israeli strike killed Saleh al-Aruri, deputy head of the Hamas movement, in a southern Beirut stronghold of Hamas ally Hezbollah, two security officials told AFP. Hamas, at war with Israel in the Gaza Strip for almost three months, later confirmed Aruri's death which Lebanese state media said came in an Israeli drone strike that killed a total of six people. Hezbollah has engaged in near-daily cross-border clashes with Israel since Israel's war with Hamas began in October. Hezbollah said the strike that killed Aruri was "in continuation with... the assassination of commander Razi Moussavi."

Source: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha January 03, 2024 03:50 UTC