Hamas says top official killed in explosion south of Beirut

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>An explosion in Beirut on Tuesday killed Saleh Arouri&comma; a top official with the Palestinian militant group Hamas and three others&comma; officials with Hamas and the Lebanese group Hezbollah have confirmed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Arouri&comma; one of the founders of Hamas’s military wing&comma; had headed the group’s presence in the West Bank&period; Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu had threatened to kill him even before the Hamas-Israel war began on October 7th&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has vowed to retaliate against any Israeli targeting of Palestinian officials in Lebanon&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Hamas official Bassem Naim confirmed to The Associated Press that Arouri was killed in the blast&period; A Hezbollah official speaking on condition of anonymity in line with regulations also said Arouri was killed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Israeli officials declined to comment&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said the blast killed four people and was carried out by an Israeli drone&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The explosion shook Musharafieh&comma; one of the Lebanese capital’s southern suburbs&comma; which are a stronghold of the militant Hezbollah group&comma; an ally of Hamas&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It caused a fire in Hadi Nasrallah Street south of Beirut&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Videos circulating on social media showed serious damage and fire&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The explosion came after more than two months of heavy exchanges of fire between Israeli troops and members of Hezbollah along Lebanon’s southern border&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Since the fighting began it has been concentrated a few miles from the border but on several occasions Israel’s air force hit Hezbollah targets deeper in Lebanon&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Earlier in the day&comma; 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