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#Netanyahu had threatened #Arouri's #preemptiveAssassination even before #Oct7 attacks.

#Israel targeted Arouri, deputy political head of #Hamas, in a surgically precise #extraterritorial drone strike inside #Lebanon.

Arouri was not a #Hezbollah operative.

YET, Hezbollah responded to his precise killing with 62 rockets, calling it an #initialResponse, thus erasing all of its previous attacks.

The cross-border #escalation came even as Israel has been scaling back its assault in the north