The Lebanese government announced yesterday (Friday) that it filed a complaint with the UN Security Council against Israel, following the assassination in Beirut of the deputy head of the political bureau of Hamas, Salah al-Arouri. The complaint was filed even though Israel has not taken responsibility for the assassination so far.
The submitted complaint claims that "the Israeli aggression in Beirut is the first escalation of its kind, and the most dangerous since 2006." They also called on the UN Council to condemn the attack in the Dahieh district, to put pressure on Israel to stop fighting in the north, and to "take decisive steps to curb further Israeli attacks against Lebanon."
As mentioned, Salah al-Arouri was assassinated last Tuesday, when in Lebanon it was reported that the assassination was carried out using a suicide drone and missiles that exploded inside the Hamas offices in the Dahieh district. As part of his activities in Hamas, al-Arouri was in charge of the activities of the organization's military arm in Judea and Samaria and deputy of the head of the Political Bureau of Hamas Ismail Haniyeh. In addition, he was behind the wave of terrorism in Judea and Samaria in recent years, and was responsible for planning the kidnapping of the three boys in 2014, following which Operation Protective Edge erupted.