BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Hezbollah group has vowed to avenge the Israel’s killing of the deputy Hamas leader in a Beirut suburb on Tuesday.
The group in a statement called it a serious assault on Lebanon adding that it will not go unpunished or unanswered.
It termed the incident a dangerous development in the course of the war. An Israeli strike killed Saleh Al-Aruri, deputy head of the Hamas movement, in a southern Beirut a stronghold of Hamas ally Hezbollah.
Hamas, has confirmed Aruri’s death which according to Lebanese state media came in an Israeli drone strike that killed a total of six people.
Hezbollah has been engaged in almost daily cross-border clashes with Israel since war in Gaza started in October.
Last month, Iranian state media reported that an Israeli missile strike killed Razi Moussavi, a senior commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ near the Syrian capital Damascus.
Hezbollah said the strike that killed Hamas leader Aruri was in continuation with the assassination of commander Razi Moussavi.
Meanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron has called on Israel to avoid escalation, “especially in Lebanon,” after an attack
Since October, 7 Israel launched a relentless bombing and ground offensive against the people of Palestine in Gaza has killed more than 22,185 people, mostly children and women, Gaza’s health ministry said.
