Last night, senior Hamas-hole and arch terrorist Saleh al-Arouri, was vaporized, along with two other Hamas-holes, apparently by a drone in a targeted strike.
But don’t cry for him. He was a really, really bad man.
According to reports, Findi oversaw Hamas military activities in Lebanon — including the firing of rockets at Israel — and was considered the terror group’s point man with the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. Al-Aqraa reportedly orchestrated terror activities in the West Bank from overseas.
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Arouri was regarded as close to Nasrallah, and was reportedly scheduled to meet with the Hezbollah leader on Wednesday.
Based in Lebanon, Arouri, 57, was one of the founders of Hamas’s military wing, deputy head of the terror group’s political bureau and considered the de facto leader of Hamas’s military wing in the West Bank, though he has long resided elsewhere. He was regarded as the most notorious Hamas figure in orchestrating West Bank terrorism against Israel.
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Israeli intelligence officials believe that among numerous other attacks, Arouri helped plan the June 2014 kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens — Gil-ad Shaar, Eyal Yifrach and Naftali Fraenkel.
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After spending time in Syria, Arouri eventually moved to Beirut. From there he managed Hamas operations in the West Bank, pushing terror activities and arranging the transfer of funds to pay for attacks.
He was also one of the Hamas officials most closely connected to Iran and the Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon. There, Arouri is believed to have established a local Hamas force from activists in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon.
On October 7, while watching Hamas terrorists livestream their brutal attack on Israel, Arouri, along with the head of the Hamas political bureau Ismail Haniyeh, and other members of Hamas leadership was seen in a video “prostrating in gratitude,” apparently in Qatar.
The head of the Hamas Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, his deputy, Saleh Al-Arouri, and other members of the Hamas leadership "prostrate in gratitude" for the ongoing attacks against Israel. pic.twitter.com/ACuajF4PTf
— Gianluca Pacchiani (@GLucaPacchiani) October 7, 2023In an October 8 interview with Al Jazeera, Arouri defined the unprecedented assault launched by the terror group on Israel the day before — in which Hamas terrorists slaughtered some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, amid brutal atrocities including rape, execution and burning — as an “open battle” aimed at achieving the “liberation” of the Palestinian people and their holy places. He claimed it was a reaction to the alleged “desecration” by Jewish worshipers of the Al-Aqsa compound on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount over the holiday of Sukkot, and alleged that Israel had planned to impose an unspecified “new reality” on the Temple Mount after the holiday.
“We have a plan for all stages of this conflict,” Arouri said then, “both in case of an Israeli request for a ceasefire and in case of a continuing escalation of the violence. We are prepared for all options.” He added that an Israeli ground invasion would be the “best scenario” for Hamas.
“We entered this battle not just for a few hours. We entered it knowing that there will be consequences, and we have no choice but to fight it to achieve our high goals,” he said.
Unnamed US officials told the New York Times and Washington Post that Israel was responsible, and it wouldn’t take a, ehh, rocket scientist to work out it was probably, if not almost certainly, us.
Yet we are declining to comment. For instance, check out Mark Regev in the below interview. I think it was harder for him to not give away that we vaporized al-Arouri than for us to actually vaporize him:
.@MarkRegev, Senior Advisor to the @IsraeliPM and former Israeli Ambassador to the #UK, tells us #Israel was responsible for terminating senior #Hamas-hole #SalehalArouri without telling us Israel was responsible for terminating him pic.twitter.com/2OTL2ralml
— (((David Lange))) (@Israellycool) January 3, 2024
Well done, Israel, for turning this evil man into worm food. Ehh, I mean well done to whoever was responsible.
