Israel, under a Cone of Silence, is in a State of Denial following the Putin method of assassination. I admit I could be wrong and Putin, ex-KGB, follows the path of Mossad.

An anonymous US defense official told The Washington Post that Israel, which doesn’t typically comment on its assassination operations abroad, was responsible for a strike targeting al-Arouri “and that an assessment” of “whether he had been killed” was ongoing.

Mark Regev, foreign media spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, stumbled over his words during an interview with the US broadcaster MSNBC, seeking to avoid Israel claiming responsibility while at the same time defending it as an attack on Hamas and not on Hizballah or the Lebanese state.

Source: Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri killed in Beirut strike | The Electronic Intifada