Hezbollah says Israel killing of Hamas deputy 'will not go unanswered'

Hezbollah says Israel killing of Hamas deputy ‘will not go unanswered’

/ 07:01 AM January 03, 2024

People stand at a damaged building following an explosion at Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh

People stand at a damaged building following an explosion in the Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, Lebanon, January 2, 2024. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

Beirut, Lebanon — 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.”

Hezbollah called it “a serious assault on Lebanon.”

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“We, Hezbollah, affirm that this crime will not go unanswered or unpunished,” the movement said in a statement that called it “a serious assault on Lebanon… and a dangerous development in the course of the war,” the statement added.

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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.

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Hamas, at war with Israel in the Gaza Strip for almost three months, later confirmed Aruri’s death, which Lebanese state media said came from an Israeli drone strike that killed a total of six people.

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Hezbollah has engaged in near-daily cross-border clashes with Israel since Israel’s war with Hamas began in October.

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Last month, Iranian state media said an Israeli missile strike killed Razi Moussavi, a senior commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ foreign operations arm, the Quds Force, near the Syrian capital Damascus.

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Moussavi was the most senior Quds Force commander to be killed outside Iran in four years.

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Hezbollah said the strike that killed Aruri was “in continuation with… the assassination of commander Razi Moussavi.”

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Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is set to give a televised speech on Wednesday.

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