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2024-01-03 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
IDF attack on site in Beirut suburb kills senior Hamas leaders, PIJ ditto, IRGC contacts
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Courtesy of badanov:
Two Hamas commanders were killed in Hamas office bombing in the Lebanese capital
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] A member of the Paleostinian Hamas
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
movement, Saleh al-Arouri, was killed along with two commanders of the hard boy wing of the Izzaddin al-Qassam Brigades as a result of an Israeli drone attack on the Shiite suburb of Dahiya of Beirut, Hamas said in an official statement.

"The cowardly murders of the leaders of our people inside and outside Paleostine, committed by the occupation regime [Israel], will not be able to break the will and resilience of the fighters of its valiant resistance," the Paleostinian movement wrote on its Telegram channel.

According to al-Aqsa TV channel, the dead commanders of the Izzaddin al-Qassam Brigades were named Samir Effendi and Azzam al-Aqra.

The leader of the Hamas Politburo, Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
, added on Al Jazeera that among the dead were also ordinary fighters of the movement Mahmoud Shaheen, Mohammed Bashash, Mohammed al-Rayes and Ahmed Hamoud.

As Regnum reported, after the earth-shattering kaboom in Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
of a Hamas office, where the deputy head of the movement's Politburo, Saleh al-Arouri, and his other associates were killed, the leadership of the radical Paleostinian organization decided to stop any negotiations on the release of the hostages. Hamas informed the mediators, mainly representatives of Egypt and Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, about this.

Israel rejected a new hostage deal proposed by the Paleostinian Hamas movement on December 31, 2023. The unnamed Israeli official said Hamas's proposal was a three-step process. Each of them provided for a pause in hostilities for more than a month in exchange for the release of hostages. Israel's military cabinet discussed Hamas's new proposal and told Qatari and Egyptian mediators on January 1 that the proposal was unfounded and unacceptable.

More from regnum.ru
Four people were killed in an explosion at a Hamas office in south Beirut

In the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburb of Beirut, Daaheh, a kaboom occurred, after which a fire started, Rooters reports on January 2.

Lebanese media reported that the earth-shattering kaboom was the result of an Israeli drone attack on the office of the Paleostinian radical movement Hamas in South Beirut. There were injuries as a result of the incident.

The Al Mayadeen TV channel, in turn, reported that as a result of this explosion, the deputy head of the Hamas politburo, Saleh al-Arouri, was killed. Three more people, according to these data, were maimed.

TASS, citing informed sources, reported that, in addition to al-Arouri, three more activists of the Paleostinian movement were killed as a result of the earth-shattering kaboom. The number of maimed is being clarified.

As Regnum reported earlier, in October and November 2023, the Israeli Defense Forces reported several attacks on Lebanese territory - according to Tel Aviv Jerusalem, the targets were Hezbollah military facilities used to attack Israel.

Earlier on January 2, the head of the Hamas Politburo, Ismail Haniyeh, said that the radical Paleostinian movement would release captured Israeli citizens only on its own terms, because the Paleostinians are the "masters of the situation." Hostage exchange initiatives will be considered only after an Israeli ceasefire, Haniyeh noted.

The Israeli authorities have refused a new deal with Hamas on the exchange of hostages, the Axios portal previously reported, citing an informed source. According to these data, Hamas' proposal consisted of a three-stage process, and at each stage a pause in hostilities was provided for more than a month in exchange for the release of the hostages.
A month at each stage? Hamas overestimates the effect of outside pressure on Bibi.
Courtesy of mossomo, an update from CBS News at 2:01 p.m ET:
Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said the blast was carried out by an Israeli drone. Israeli officials declined to comment. Tuesday's blast shook a residential building in the Beirut suburb of Musharafieh. Reports differed on the death toll, but Hamas said six other members of the group were also killed, including two military commanders.

Hamas official Bassem Naim confirmed to The Associated Press that al-Arouri was killed in the blast. A Hezbollah official speaking on condition of anonymity in line with regulations also said al-Arouri was killed.

Al-Arouri, one of the founders of Hamas' military wing, had headed the group's presence in the West Bank. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had threatened to kill him even before the Hamas-Israel war began on Oct. 7.

The United States government had previously offered a reward of up to $5 million for information on al-Arouri, saying he had "been linked to several terrorist attacks, hijackings, and kidnappings."

The explosion shook Musharafieh, one of the Lebanese capital's southern suburbs that are a stronghold of the militant Hezbollah group, an Iran-backed ally of Hamas and one of the world's most heavily armed non-state military forces.
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#1 The Bee "Tragic: Hamas Loses Two Leaders In One Day"
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#2 A century before Claudine Gay, Harvard helped Nazi Germany improve its image in the West
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#3 Apparently, Israel got smart and didn't notify the US until the attack was already under way. Otherwise the IDF would've been attacking an empty building
*Spit*
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