Iran: "The bombing of Hamas' third-in-command by Israel is a cowardly terror"

Iranian authorities condemned on the 3rd (local time) the Israeli military for assassinating a senior leader of the Palestinian armed faction Hamas, calling it a "cowardly terrorist operation."

Hamas office on the outskirts of Beirut bombed by Israeli forces / Photo by Yonhap News

Amir-Abdollahian, Iran's Foreign Minister, posted on social media platform X that "this cowardly terrorist operation is proof that the Zionist regime (Israel), with direct support from the White House, has committed war crimes, mass killings, and destruction in Gaza and the West Bank for weeks but has failed to achieve any objectives."

He added, "The atrocities committed by this regime's terrorist organization in other countries pose a real threat and warning to the peace and security of all countries in the region."

Six people, including Al-Aluri, deputy head of Hamas's political bureau, died the previous evening in a drone strike by the Israeli military on a Hamas office on the outskirts of Beirut. Al-Aluri was the third-ranking member of Hamas and a founding member of Hamas's armed wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades.

This is the first time since the war broke out in October last year that Israel has directly attacked near Beirut, rather than the Hezbollah stronghold in southern Lebanon, a pro-Iran armed faction. From Iran's perspective, Hamas and Hezbollah, which it prides as the "axis of resistance," have both suffered significant blows by being attacked simultaneously by their adversary, Israel.

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