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2024-01-04 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Saleh al-Arouri: Mastermind of Hamas terrorism in West Bank, hostage deal negotiator
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[IsraelTimes] Deputy head of Gazoo-ruling terror group was long in Israeli crosshairs before being assassinated in Beirut, where he played a key role in cementing ties with Hezbollah and Iran
Deputy Hamas
 ...always the voice of sweet reason...
leader Saleh al-Arouri had long expected the Israeli dronezap that security sources said killed him in Beirut on Tuesday, three months after his Paleostinian terror group’s surprise cross-border onslaught that triggered a months-long war in Gaza.
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"I am waiting for martyrdom and think that I lived too long," he said in August, as he urged Paleostinians in the West Bank to take up arms amid a surge of violence.
The killing of the notorious terror chief comes at a defining moment for the Gaza-ruling organization, as Israel attempts to eradicate it in retaliation for the October 7 massacres, when Hamas bandidos gunnies rampaged across the border, killing around 1,200 people and seizing some 240 hostages.
Israel has long accused Arouri of lethal attacks on its citizens, but a Hamas official said he was also "at the heart of negotiations" over the outcome of the Gaza war and the release of hostages conducted by Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
and Egypt.
"Whoever did this did a surgical strike against the Hamas leadership," said Mark Regev, a senior adviser to Prime Minister Benjmain Netanyahu. Israel does not typically confirm or deny responsibility for such attacks.
Though less influential than Hamas’s leaders in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
, Arouri was seen as a key player in the terror group, criminal masterminding its operations in the West Bank — where he was the top commander — from exile in Syria, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
, Qatar and finally Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
after long stints in Israeli prisons. In 2015, the US Treasury Department designated Arouri as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, offering $5 million for information about him.
As the group’s bigwig in Lebanon he played a big role in cementing Hamas’s relations with the Lebanese terror organization Hezbollah, and through it with Iran, the main backer for both groups.
Arouri met Hezbollah leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...
several times, as well as Iranian officials in Lebanon and Hamas sources said he worked with them to coordinate positions regarding the conflict in Gaza.
Hamas has confirmed his death but not otherwise commented. Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
, an allied terror group, swore Dire Revenge for his killing in a statement on Tuesday, saying it would "not go unpunished."
Within Hamas, Arouri was described as a leading advocate of reconciliation between rival Paleostinian factions, enjoying a good relationship with Fatah, the party of Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
which holds sway in the West Bank.
Hamas and Fatah have been at odds for years, fighting a brief civil war in 2007 when Hamas seized power in Gaza, though the rival organizations have continued to hold periodic negotiations.
But when it came to the conflict with Israel, Arouri was seen as a hardliner. He helped found the terror group’s military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, and Israel accused him of orchestrating deadly attacks over the years.
Israeli intelligence officials believe that among numerous other attacks, Arouri helped plan the June 2014 kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens — Gil-ad Shaar, Eyal Yifrach and Naftali Fraenkel.
’NO OTHER OPTION’
As Israel’s military control of the West Bank continued, with Jewish settlements expanding and Paleostinian statehood appearing ever more distant, Arouri said there was "no other option" but to engage in what he called comprehensive resistance.
He was one of the Hamas big turbans behind the terror group’s strong expansion into the West Bank, where its button men have carried out a string of deadly attacks on Israeli civilians and soldiers over the past 18 months.
Several shootings last year took place shortly after Arouri had made televised threats against Israel.
With the group’s Gaza leaders Yahya Sinwar, Muhammed Deif and Marwan Issa in deep hiding, Arouri was closely involved in negotiations around the war, saying in December that no more hostages would be released until there was a full ceasefire.
As a member of Hamas’s politburo under the terror group’s Qatar-based overall leader Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
, Arouri was well used to dialogue, even — indirectly — with his bitter enemies the Israelis.
Born near Ramallah in the West Bank in 1966, Arouri was an early recruit to Hamas, joining when it was formed in 1987 as Paleostinians began the First Intifada uprising against Israel.
He was placed in durance vile
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
in 1992, a year before Fatah’s leadership agreed to the Oslo accords with Israel, accepting its existence and abandoning armed struggle in favor of a push to negotiate the creation of a Paleostinian state — an approach rejected by Hamas.
He served several terms in Israeli jails, and was released in March 2010 as part of efforts to reach a larger prisoner swap for Gilad Shalit, an IDF corporal kidnapped by Hamas in 2006. Arouri went on to be involved in sewing up the deal that provided for the release of more than 1,000 Paleostinian prisoners from Israeli jails in return for the freeing of Shalit in 2011, an agreement that Hamas hopes to replicate after the current war using hostages seized on October 7.
Arouri spent three years in Syria before moving to Turkey until Israel pressed Ankara to make him leave in 2015 when the two countries briefly patched up ties after years of acrimony (relations have once again soured amid the latest war in Gaza). He has since been residing in Qatar and Lebanon, working from Hamas’s office in Beirut’s Dahiyeh district, a Hezbollah stronghold, until Tuesday’s sudden strike.
After spending time in Syria, al-Arouri eventually moved to Beirut. From there he managed Hamas military operations in the West Bank, pushing terror activities and arranging the transfer of funds to pay for terror attacks.
He was also one of the Hamas officials most closely connected to Iran and the Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon.
There, al-Arouri has established a local Hamas force from activists in Lebanese refugee camps. The group has military training and a rocket arsenal, though not on the same scale as Hezbollah’s.
Hebrew media reports say he was set to meet with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. 
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