A drone strike on a southern Beirut neighbourhood killed several Hamas leaders including Saleh al-Arouri, the deputy leader of the group’s political wing and founder of the military wing, Al Jazeera reports.
The move represents a major regional escalation in Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, which has killed more than 22,000 people there so far. But this was not the first time that Israel has carried out an assassination within Lebanon.
Read Al Jazeera’s full story here.
