2024-01-03 01:00:00
The spokesman for the Fatah movement, which heads the Palestinian Authority, Hussein Hamayel, has assured that Israel intends to escalate the conflict in the Gaza Strip to the entire region after killing this Tuesday the ‘number two’ of the political arm of the Islamic Resistance Movement. (Hamas), Salé al Aruri, in a drone attack in Beirut, the Lebanese capital. “The murder (of Al Aruri) is evidence that the Israeli occupier is a criminal state and is working to escalate the conflict on all borders (…) this murder will not stop the Palestinian people from ending their fight to get rid of the Israeli yoke,” Hamayel told the Turkish news agency Anatolia. Furthermore, he has reported that, prior to this attack, leaders of the Palestinian National Action had been “murdered”, including members of the former Fatah Central Committee, although he has not specified any names. In that sense, he has expressed his rejection of this attack, which has occurred as a consequence “of the international silence regarding Israeli crimes.” “Today we say goodbye to a patriotic Palestinian who lost his life for Palestine. He is a fighter, a prisoner, a liberator and a martyr.” “Al Fatah remembers Al Aruri’s continued desire to achieve Palestinian national unity and overcome the painful division that destroyed the cohesion of the Palestinian cause,” he added. On the other hand, the secretary of the Al Fatah Central Committee, Jibril Rajub, has offered his condolences to the leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyé, for the death of Al Aruri, whom he described as “one of the most loyal fighters” of the Palestinian cause, as reported by the WAFA news agency. At least seven people have dead and several others have been injured after a drone attack on a Hamas office located in Mushrifiya, in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital. Among the fatalities is Al Aruri, considered ‘number two’ of the political arm of the Islamist organization and one of the commanders of the Al Qassam brigades. In Lebanon since 2018, Al Aruri has been imprisoned in Israeli prisons for twelve years before being released in 2010. He is credited with responsibility for several attacks against Israel from Lebanese soil . He has been one of the main intermediaries in the release of the hostages taken by Hamas on October 7.
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