Other significant Hamas officials died in Tuesday's drone strike that killed senior leader Saleh al-Arouri, harming the armed group's military capabilities in Lebanon during Israel's war on Gaza. According to Lebanese state media, the strike on a Hamas office in the Hezbollah stronghold of Dahiyeb, a southern suburb of Beirut, killed seven people. Hamas described the killing of al-Arouri on its official TV channel as "a "cowardly assassination" by Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's adviser Mark Regev told the United States-based TV news channel MSNBC that Israel had not taken responsibility for the attack and added: "Whoever did it, it must be clear that this was not an attack on the Lebanese state." Al-Arouri, 57, was the deputy chief of the Hamas political bureau.

A general strike has been called across the cities of the occupied West Bank in protest against the assassination of seven members of Hamas, including the deputy head of its political bureau, Saleh al-Arouri. The strike was called by Palestinian armed groups that asked people to stay home on Wednesday and only leave to march in demonstrations against the drone attack on the outskirts of Beirut. The slain men are Saleh al-Arouri, who was also the commander of the Qassam Brigades in the occupied West Bank; Samir Fendi, who commanded the Qassam Brigades in Lebanon; Azzam al-Aqraa, who commanded the Qassam Brigades in southern Lebanon; and members Mahmoud Shaheen, Mohammed al-Rayes, Mohammed Bashasha and Ahmed Hamoud. All seven will be buried in Lebanon. Funerals will be held for Hamoud and Shaheen on Wednesday in the Burj al-Barajneh camp for Palestinian refugees and Taalbaya, respectively.