The TV station of Lebanon바카라™s Hezbollah group says top Hamas official Saleh Arouri was killed on Tuesday in an explosion in a southern Beirut suburb.
Arouri, one of the founders of Hamas바카라™ military wing, had headed the group바카라™s presence in the West Bank, AP reported.
Israel바카라™s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had threatened to kill him even before the Hamas-Israel war began on October 7.
Israeli officials declined to comment, the report mentioned.
Lebanon바카라™s state-run National News Agency said the blast killed four people and was carried out by an Israeli drone, it mentioned.
An explosion shook the Lebanese capital바카라™s southern suburbs Tuesday evening causing chaos in the militant Hezbollah group바카라™s stronghold, but the nature of the blast was not immediately known, it added.
It wasn바카라™t clear if the explosion inflicted any casualties in the Beirut suburb but videos circulating on social media showed serious damage and fire, it said.
The explosion came during more than two months of heavy exchanges of fire between Israeli troops and members of Hezbollah along Lebanon바카라™s southern border, it said.
Since the fighting began on October 8, the fighting has been concentrated a few miles (kilometers) from the border but on several occasions Israel바카라™s air force hit Hezbollah targets deeper in Lebanon.
Earlier in the day, Hezbollah said its fighters carried out several attacks along the Lebanon-Israel border targeting Israeli military posts.
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