Several Hamas officials who were living in Lebanon have fled to neighboring countries and other allies after Hamas deputy leader Saleh Arouri was killed in an alleged Israeli strike, the Kan public broadcaster reports.
Following the killing of Arouri in Beirut on January 2, some Hamas officials relocated to Turkey and Syria, the report states, while the terror group’s spokesman Ghazi Hamad has been in Cairo, Egypt since Arouri’s death and has supposedly not made any plans to return to Lebanon.
The explosion that killed Arouri has been widely attributed to Israel, while Israeli officials have declined to comment.
In addition to Arouri, six others were killed in the blast, including Hamas officials Mahmoud Shaheen, Muhammad Bashasha, Muhammad al-Rayes and Ahmed Hammoud.
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