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Analysis: ‘Very precarious situation’ after Hamas leader killed | Israel-Hamas war

  • January 3, 2024



Analysis: ‘Very precarious situation’ after Hamas leader killed | Israel-Hamas war

On the Middle East as well his buah has worn an attack on lebanon’s Capital killing a senior Hamas official will not pass without punishment Hamas claims Israel is behind the Drone attack which killed the deputy head of its political Bureau Israel’s not officially claimed responsibility but said it’s at a high

Level of Readiness for retaliation uh Alistar is standing by for us this morning did Israel do it do you think Ali well I don’t think anyone in the region thinks it is anyone other than the Israelis Israelis don’t often uh claim responsibility for high level assassinations like this but Salah alori

Had been on their Wanted list for many years and it would look as though Israel has killed the most senior Hamas Commander during this war so far the fact that it has happened in the center of Beirut the Lebanese Capital means that we are now in a very precarious

Situation now Hezbollah have not wanted to escalate into a full-blown war with Israel so far we’ve seen a lot of crossborder skirmishes a lot of Rocket fire going between Lebanon and Israel but it has been contained to the Border regions so far but this does uh put

Pressure I think on Hezbollah to respond given that it happened in a part of Beirut uh that is controlled by Hezbollah the Israelis as we said they’re not claiming responsibility for it but they are trying to make the point that this was an attack very clearly targeted at Hamas not at Hezbollah uh

There intelligence reports to suggest that uh the air strike uh was held back until everybody who was not a member of Hamas uh had left the area and so it will be hoped by Israel and by others uh that Hezbollah are restrain from carrying out any retaliatory attacks uh

Because this was not an attack on Hezbollah it was not an attack on Lebanon but it was an attack on Hamas however when you’ve got an assassination like this of a very senior Hamas Commander the deputy head of its political Wing uh the head of its or

Deao head of its uh West Bank operation uh what is already a very fragile situation uh could get much more dangerous

Israel is on high alert for an escalation with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah after “the most senior Hamas commander” Saleh al Arouri was killed in Beirut.

Israeli has not officially admitted it carried out the attack but said it’s at a high level of readiness for retaliation.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah – who previously vowed to retaliate for any Israeli targeting of allied militant leaders in Lebanon – is expected to deliver a speech at 4pm UK time today.

Read more: https://news.sky.com/story/israel-gaza-latest-hamas-war-updates-sky-news-blog-12978800

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28 comments

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    Former Israeli official Brig. Gen. Yitzhak Segev, who wasthe Israeli military governor in Gaza in the early 1980s, told a New York Times reporter that he had helped finance the Palestinian Islamist movement as a "counterweight" to the secularists and leftists of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Fatah party, led by Yasser Arafat. Avner Cohen, a former Israeli religious affairs official who worked in Gaza for more than two decades, told the Wall Street Journal in 2009 that Hamas is "Israel's creation." Hamas was the result of this, as Mehdi Hasan explains. First, the Israelis helped build up a militant strain of Palestinian political Islam, in the form of Hamas and its Muslim Brotherhood precursors; then, the Israelis switched tack and tried to bomb, besiege, and blockade it out of existence.

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  16. Lol..
    It's not an attack on Lebanon, and by default, Hezbollah, honest, it's not.
    We just sent a drone attack into the capitol, but it's not an attack on Lebanon.
    I somehow doubt that's going to placate Hezbollah.

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  25. Why was he in Beirut relaxing when he should have been fighting alongside Hamas? A real leader wouldn’t have been hiding while his men were dying

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