Reports: Israel Killed the Leader of Hamas' "Military" Wing in Lebanon Drone Strike

They'd been hunting this demon for ages. Hamas maintains spiderholes in other countries, where its terror commanders live in safety while plotting rapes and murders.

Until those spiderholes are hit by missiles.

Yashar Ali @yashar

BREAKING

Islamic Republic state media is confirming that senior Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri was killed in an explosion in Beirut tonight.

This is a significant development. Israeli intelligence has been trying to kill al-Arouri for years and the United States has had a 5 million dollar bounty on him.

Al-Arouri is a deputy political leader for Hamas and one of the founders of al-Qassam Brigades, the so-called military wing of Hamas.

The United States has listed al-Arouri as a designated global terrorist since 2015.

In 2014, al-Arouri was the Hamas leader who announced that three Israeli teenagers (including a dual US national) were kidnapped and killed in the West Bank. He referred to the murders as "heroic."

More from Ed Morrissey:

NBC News now lists the death toll as six. The IDF has not issued any statement about the explosion, but Hamas has accused Israel of attacking via a drone strike on the offices. A "US defense official" tells the Washington Post that the Israelis hit the office. A Likud member, Danny Danon, has reportedly credited the attack to the Mossad, Shin Bet, IDF, and the war cabinet, NBC notes, but that's not an official declaration.

Nevertheless, it seems unlikely that anyone else would have struck at a Hamas office in Beirut.

Morrissey speculates that Hezballah (Hamas' terror ally in Lebanon) will talk a big game about retaliating against Israel, but will refrain from doing much, as it doesn't want to be added to the Godfather Red Baptism montage of killings to come.

This thread details the rape and murder of the "Woman in Black," an Israeli girl abducted from the "peace" rave by Hamas, as well as 30 other women abducted, raped, and sexually mutilated.

This is Jack the Ripper depravity:

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Relying on video footage, photographs, GPS data from mobile phones and interviews with more than 150 people, including witnesses, medical personnel, soldiers and rape counselors, The Times identified at least seven locations where Israeli women and girls appear to have been sexually assaulted or mutilated.

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Four witnesses described in graphic detail seeing women raped and killed at two different places along Route 232, the same highway where Ms. Abdush's half-naked body was found sprawled on the road at a third location.

And The Times interviewed several soldiers and volunteer medics who together described finding more than 30 bodies of women and girls in and around the rave site and in two kibbutzim in a similar state as Ms. Abdush's -- legs spread, clothes torn off, signs of abuse in their genital areas.

Yaari Cohen
@YaariCohen
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Many of the accounts are difficult to bear, and the visual evidence is disturbing to see.

The Times viewed photographs of one woman's corpse that emergency responders discovered in the rubble of a besieged kibbutz with dozens of nails driven into her thighs and groin.

The Times also viewed a video, provided by the Israeli military, showing two dead Israeli soldiers at a base near Gaza who appeared to have been shot directly in their vaginas.

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Hamas has denied Israel's accusations of sexual violence. Israeli activists have been outraged that the United Nations Secretary General, António Guterres, and the agency U.N. Women did not acknowledge the many accusations until weeks after the attacks.

Investigators with Israel's top national police unit, Lahav 433, have been steadily gathering evidence but they have not put a number on how many women were raped, saying that most are dead -- and buried -- and that they will never know. No survivors have spoken publicly.

Remember, your media minders want you to repeat that Hamas Just Wants to Breathe (TM).

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:45 PM

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