Hamas says Israel kills its deputy head in Beirut
Hamas television on Tuesday announced the "assassination" by Israel of the militant group's deputy head in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut. Saleh al-Aruri was killed in a "treacherous Zionist strike", Hamas said on its official channel. A high-level security official in Beirut told AFP that Aruri was killed in the Israeli strike along with his bodyguards in the Lebanese capital's southern suburbs, which is a stronghold of Hamas ally Hezbollah. (AFP)