An Israeli drone strike on Hamas‘ offices in Lebanon killed four of the terror group’s members including Saleh al-Arouri, its deputy political leader, Hamas and Hezbollah officials claimed tonight as they vowed to retaliate.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had threatened to kill al-Arouri, who headed the organisation in the West Bank and helped to found the group’s armed wing, even before Hamas launched its bloody October 7 attack. 

Israeli officials tonight vowed that all Hamas leaders ‘are doomed to death’, but declined to comment on whether their forces had carried out the Beirut attack.

Hamas condemned the killing as a ‘cowardly assassination’ by Israel and declared that such attacks ‘will not succeed in breaking the will and steadfastness of our people, or undermining the continuation of their valiant resistance’.

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah earlier pledged to retaliate against any Israeli targeting of Palestinian officials in Lebanon. As the most senior Hamas figure killed since the war erupted almost 90 days ago, al-Arouri’s death could provoke major retaliation, with Israel anticipating that its enemies could launch revenge rocket attacks.

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