al-arori. to continue this, we'll go to beirot now, our correspondent mariam salah is there, and i believethe explosion took place, it sounded all throughout this area, and we heard of course from eyewitnesses saying that they saw...

arori. so to continue this, uh, we'll go to beirot now, our correspondent mariam salah is there, and i believe she's at the scene of that incident. maria, yes, of course, we are right here, this is exactly where the explosion took place, it sounded all throughout this area, and we heard of course from eyewitnesses saying that they saw. something of course sparkle in the sky, so that's why it's not very confirmed yet, but it seems to be uh very uh probably a drone attack, and they said that they heard three different explosions, so it could have been three rockets that were fired uh from a drone against the building which is in the uh southern suburbs uh of beirot, this is in southern beirot and that targeted and assassinated the leader in hamas salih, of course salih is... the deputy of the head of the political bureau of hamas and here we're talking about a high ranking official uh in hamas, we have seen of course uh from the israelis uh on several accounts, whether it is through social media or through their media saying that they will hunt down as they say, they will try to assassinate and

since movement hamas, salah arori was a celebrated military strategist and one of the founding members of hamas's military wing, the azidin al khassam brigades. he had been living in exile in lebanon after spending some 18 years in in israeli jail. before the israeli carnage began on october 7th, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu had threatened to kill him.