Resistance, supporters bid farewell to martyr Saleh Al-Arouri
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Martyr Sheikh Saleh Al-Arouri is laid to rest in the Martyrs' Cemetery in the Sabra and Shatila camp.
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Footage taken from the funeral procession of Martyr Sheikh Saleh al-Arouri, January 4, 2024. (Al Mayadeen)
The deputy head of the Hamas movement's Political Bureau, Sheikh Saleh Al-Arouri, was laid to rest Thursday following his assassination in an Israeli aggression on Tuesday.
Al-Arouri was buried in the Sabra and Shatila Martyrs' Cemetery, and his funeral procession was also joined by that of martyrs Azzam al-Aqra' and Mohammad al-Rayyes.
The Resistance leader was martyred alongside six of his companions in the Southern Suburb of Beirut.
Footage from the funeral procession for the Deputy Chief of the Political Bureau of Hamas, martyr Salah al-Arouri, in #Beirut.
— Al Mayadeen English (@MayadeenEnglish) January 4, 2024
Al-Arouri was martyred in an Israeli strike on Tuesday evening alongside five others.#Palestine https://t.co/1D5foJUObQ
The head of the Political Bureau of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, mourned on Tuesday the martyrdom of Al-Arouri, as well as that al-Qassam Brigades leaders Samir Fandi and Azzam al-Aqra, and a group of their fellow martyrs, in a "cowardly Israeli aggression".
In a press release, Haniyeh called the Israeli occupation's assassination of al-Aarouri and his companions an "outright terrorist act and a violation of Lebanon's sovereignty," as well as an expansion of the Israeli aggression.
مراسم تشييع نائب رئيس المكتب السياسي لحماس الشهيد صالح العاروري في العاصمة اللبنانية بيروت.@AlMayadeenNews #الميادين_لبنان #لبنان pic.twitter.com/OdylMnGhbf
— الميادين لبنان (@mayadeenlebanon) January 4, 2024
Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah discussed in his speech on Wednesday al-Arouri's assassination, where he underlined that the crime committed by "Israel" was an act of aggression on the southern suburbs of Beirut.
"The assassination of Sheikh Saleh al-Arouri is a flagrant, dangerous crime that will not go unanswered," he stressed.
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