In a message to Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh, Iran’s President Ebrahim Raeisi extended his condolences over the martyrdom of a senior Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri.
Raeisi said that the blood of this noble martyr, along with the blood of other martyrs of the Resistance and the oppressed Palestinian people will make the strong tree of Resistance more fruitful which will soon lead to the definitive victory of Palestine in the current war and finally the celebration of the liberation of the holy land of Palestine from the claws of the Zionist occupation.
The terrorist crime of the provisional Zionist regime in targeting one of the leaders and commanders of the Resistance outside the geographical area of Palestine and the repeated violation of the territorial integrity of the regional countries by the usurping regime is a clear sign of the inability, helplessness and disgraceful failure in the historical operation of Al-Aqsa Storm and the heroic Resistance of the Palestinian nation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank in the past three months, Raeisi further stated.
Al-Arouri was martyred as in an explosion in a building in al-Musharrafieh district in southern Beirut, Lebanon.
Later, Hamas confirmed that al-Arouri was martyred in Israel’s terror attack, which also killed a few of his companions.
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