2024-01-14 10:17:05
Ramallah (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – The Israeli army arrested at dawn on Sunday the two sisters of Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri, whom Hamas accused the Hebrew state of assassinating in Lebanon at the beginning of this month, as the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club announced and their family confirmed.
Published on: 01/14/2024 – 11:17 Last updated: 01/14/2024 – 11:16
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The spokeswoman for the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club, Amani Farajna, told AFP that the Israeli army “arrested Dalal Al-Arouri (52 years old) from her mother’s house in the village of Arora, north of Ramallah, and Fatima Al-Arouri (47 years old) from her home in the city of Al-Bireh.”
The Israeli army confirmed the arrest of Al-Arouri’s sisters “following they incited terrorism once morest the State of Israel.”
Awad Al-Arouri, Saleh Al-Arouri’s brother-in-law, also confirmed to AFP the arrest of the two sisters. However, he stated that the army arrested five of Saleh Al-Arouri’s relatives, including two of his brothers, and placed them under administrative detention.
Al-Arouri and two other Hamas leaders were assassinated on January 2 in a missile strike on the movement’s office in Al-Musharafieh, in the southern suburb of Beirut.
Hamas accused the “Zionist occupation” of assassinating Al-Arouri, while Israel did not confirm that it carried out the assassination.
At the end of last October, the Israeli army demolished Al-Arouri’s house in the village of Aroura. Israel says that Al-Arouri participated in planning the attack launched by the movement once morest Israel on the seventh of last October.
Al-Arouri was deputy head of the political bureau of Hamas and founder of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas in the West Bank.
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