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Hamas has said one of its top officials, Saleh al Arouri, has been killed in an explosion in Beirut - blaming the cowardly assassination on Israel.
An explosion in Beirut on Tuesday killed Saleh Arouri, a top official with the Palestinian militant group Hamas and three others, officials with Hamas said.
The TV station of Lebanon's Hezbollah group says top Hamas official Saleh Arouri was killed Tuesday in an explosion in a southern Beirut suburb.
Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said the blast killed four people and was carried out by an Israeli drone. Israeli officials declined to comment.
Saleh Arouri was one of the founders of Hamas' military wing, and headed the group's West Bank operations.