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Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/02/middleeast/beirut-lebanon-hamas-official-killed-intl/index.html
Hamas Says Senior Leader Killed in Attack in Beirut
(CNN) Abeer Salman - An airstrike targeted a Hamas office in Beirut on Tuesday. Hamas media said Saleh Al-Arouri, deputy head of the political bureau of Hamas, was "martyred." Al-Arouri was one of the founding members of Hamas' military Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades in the West Bank, and is considered to be the mastermind behind arming the group. He spent 15 years in Israeli prisons before being deported.