Saleh al-Arouri

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Saleh Muhammad Sulayman al-Arouri (Arabic: صالح محمد سليمان العاروري, romanized: Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad Sulaimān al-ʿĀrūrī; 19 August 1966 – 2 January 2024), also transliterated as Salah al-Arouri or Salih al-Aruri, was a Palestinian politician and senior leader of Hamas who served as deputy chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau from October 2017 until his assassination in January 2024. He was a founding commander of Hamas' military wing, the Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades, and later served as Hamas' military commander of the West Bank, although he lived in Lebanon at the time of his assassination. Al-Arouri was born in 'Arura near Ramallah in the West Bank in 1966. He enrolled at Hebron University to study Islamic Sharia in 1985, during which he was elected head of the Islamic faction at the university, and was recruited to Hamas in 1987 during the First Intifada. Starting in 1990, he was imprisoned by Israel multiple times for his Hamas activities, starting with administrative detention, and served...

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