2024-01-03

World today: 2024-01-03.

 

ISRAEL / HAMAS:  HAMAS DEPUTY CHIEF SALEH AL-AROURI GETS HIS VIRGINS.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/382959

'Saleh al-Arouri, the deputy chairman of Hamas’ political bureau, was killed in an explosion in the neighborhood of Dahieh in southern Beirut this evening (Tuesday), Arabic and Hezbollah media sources reported.  Al-Arouri was considered the 'number two' of the terrorist organization under Ismail Haniyeh and was responsible for terrorist activity in Judea and Samaria. He once admitted Hamas' responsibility for the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers in 2014. He was close to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. ... Two other people were reportedly killed in the blast, which occurred while al-Arouri was reportedly in a meeting with other terrorist operatives from Hamas and Hezbollah. According to reports, one of the operatives who was killed in the strike together with al-Arouri was Khalil al-Hayya, a senior member of the Hamas political wing.'

https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2024/01/hamas-deputy-leader-killed-in-suspected-israeli-airstrike-in-lebanon.php

'Al-Aruri is the first top tier Hamas leader killed since Hamas and its terrorist allies launched the Oct. 7 rampage on southern Israel. Since Israel entered the Gaza strip to dismantle Hamas’ political and military organization, numerous mid-level military commanders, political leaders and operatives have been killed or captured. But senior Gaza-based Hamas leaders such Yahya Sinwar, his brother Muhammad Sinwar, and commander Muhammad Deif have escaped the dragnet thus far.'


ISRAEL / HAMAS:  ADIL MISMAH OF NUKHBA COMPANY GETS HIS VIRGINS.

https://voz.us/israel-confirms-it-eliminated-a-hamas-leader-involved-in-the-october-7-terrorist-attacks/?lang=en

'In a post on X, the IDF claimed to have eliminated Adil Mismah, a commander of the Nukhba Company in Deir al-Balah who participated in the terrorist attacks of October 7, when Hamas invaded Israel, massacring more than 1,200 people and kidnapping hundreds of civilians.'


UPDATE:  ISRAELI DRONE STRIKE TARGETED MULTIPLE HAMAS LEADERS IN LEBANON.

https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2024/01/02/new-top-hamas-commander-killed-in-beirut-by-israeli-drone-strike-n2168203

'Saleh al-Arouri, the leader of Hamas' military operations in the West Bank and the man responsible for facilitating money and weapons transfers for the group since the 1980s, and others were killed when the building in which they were meeting with other "resistance factions" in Beirut was bombed.  Reports indicate that Khalil al-Hayya, Hamas' deputy political director in Gaza, Abu Amar, head of Hamas forces in southern Lebanon, and Hamas spokesman Osama Hamdan were also killed, but those identities have not been confirmed.'