How drones cornered and killed the Hamas deputy Saleh al-Arouri
The drone-strike assassination of Saleh al-Arouri, deputy head of Hamas’s political bureau, was surgical in two ways.
First, the munition chosen to blow up the Hamas office he sat in on Tuesday, as night fell over Beirut’s Mediterranean coast, was technically precise. The small-diameter guided missile fired by the drone was designed for such missions, to kill the target without too much surrounding damage. In this case it blew up one room without damaging the rest of the multistorey building.
The second sense in which the attack was surgical was its timing. The drone was masked by the sun setting over the sea, its buzz drowned out by traffic, and there were at least two other drones providing real-time video.
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