Israel-Hamas war: Strike in Beirut kills Hamas deputy leader
Lebanese media has said Hamas official Saleh Arouri was among those killed when an Israeli drone hit a Hamas office in Beirut. Meanwhile, Syria said a different Israeli airstrike caused damage near Damascus. Beirut blast allegedly targeted a Hamas office in the Lebanese capital Counterterrorism expert: Arouri involved in Hamas 'from the beginning' Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director at the Counterterrorism Project NGO, spoke to DW about Saleh Arouri, a Hamas deputy leader who was killed in Lebanese capital Beirut. Schindler said that Arouri was there "right from the beginning," having been radicalized in the 1980s, while studying in the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank. He went on to co-found Hamas' military wing, the Qassam Brigades in 1988 and form a "personal relationship" with Yahya Sinwa, who leads Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Arouri was arrested by Israel multiple times and then released in 2010, then moved to Syria. After leaving Syria in ...