From the Liveblog of
Thursday, January 4, 2024
Report: Hamas used office where Arouri was killed for 1st time this week since Oct. 7
According to a report in the Lebanese Al-Akhbar news outlet, the location where Hamas official Saleh Al-Arouri was assassinated in Beirut was a known Hamas office that the terror group abandoned in the wake of its October 7 attack on Israel.
The news outlet claims that the apartment building where the strike occurred had not been used by Hamas officials between that date and Tuesday, when Arouri entered the office after a period of travel in Qatar and Turkey, and was killed in a purported Israeli assassination.
The report also says that an investigation into the strike notes that relatively small missiles were used but they carried “highly explosive materials,” and were “not of the type used to demolish the building, but rather to kill those in it.”
