2024-01-03 10:35:28
He Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah He assured this Tuesday that the death of number two of the political office of Hamas, Saleh al Arouri, in an Israeli attack on the suburbs of Beirut “will not pass without a response” and described the action of the Jewish State as a “very dangerous” assault for Lebanon.
“We, in Hezbollah, confirm that this crime will not go without response or punishment (…) Our hands are on the trigger and our fighters are prepared to the highest level,” the Shiite movement, which controls the area where it took place, said in a statement. the action.
Al Arouri and five other members of the Palestinian Islamist movement died in the bombing by an Israeli drone against a group office in the Msharafiye area, in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital.
This is the first action in the vicinity of Beirut since the war fought in 2006 between the Shiite group and Israel.
Hezbollah denounced in its note that the Jewish State has resorted to murdering “all” those who helped launch or supported the October 7 attack against its territory, after being unable to “subjugate” the Palestinians during the last three months of war against Hamas.
Thus, considered the attack as a new step in the line of action that already led him to assassinate a military advisor of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a week ago in Damascus, which has since been the target of two other Israeli missile attacks.
Hezbollah and the Jewish State have been engaged in intense crossfire across the border between both countries since just one day after the outbreak of the war in Gaza, violence that until now had not affected a radius of more than 50 kilometers from the divide.
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