A strike attributed to Israel killed Hamas number 2 on Tuesday. Following the death of Saleh al-Arouri, the Israeli secret services reaffirm their desire to destroy the Palestinian movement.
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The Israeli authorities have been repeating since October 7 that they will continue to hunt down Hamas leaders, until they annihilate them one after the other. The death of number 2 of the Palestinian Islamist movement Saleh al-Arouri, killed Tuesday January 2 in a drone strike in Beirut, would therefore only be the beginning, according to the Hebrew state.
During the funeral of a former head of the Israeli secret service on Wednesday January 3, the current director of the Mossad, David Barnea, spoke of the total war waged against the sponsors of the October 7 attack. He then draws a parallel with the Palestinian group “Black September”, whose commando killed 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games in 1972.
“It will take time, as was the case after the Munich massacre. Let every Arab mother know that whether her son participated directly or not in the massacre of October 7, his days are numbered”he explains.
The same trauma as after the 1972 attack
Yvonnick Denoël, an intelligence specialist, is the author of Mossad’s secret wars. He sees similarities between the two events, separated by half a century, such as the trauma they represented, with the very firm political will to eliminate those responsible. But according to him, the comparison stops there.
“The limit is that the members of “Black September” were around twenty, he indicates. They were known, identified. As far as Hamas is concerned, each time a leader is eliminated, there is an order of succession that is defined in advance. So eliminating 10, 20 or 30 leaders will not bring Hamas down.”. It took the Mossad seven years to kill the leader of the “Black September” commando, Ali Hassan Salameh, who died in the explosion of his car in Beirut in 1979.