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Who is the senior Hamas figure who was killed yesterday in Beirut?

1. 1. The man was responsible for managing the "Ramadan carnival" – i.e., the annual escalation during Islam’s holy month, since Operation Guardian of the Walls of 2021 until today. Therefore, attacking him is a significant blow to Ramadan events.
   2. The man was responsible for the series of attacks from the West Bank and Jerusalem this year until October 7, which led to the death of over 30 Israelis. Therefore, attacking him is a significant (perhaps even fatal) blow to the terrorist wave of attacks that came out of the West Bank.
   3. The man was responsible for raising and transferring terrorism funds, first from Turkey and then from Iran, to the West Bank and East Jerusalem (in most cases through Jordan, sometimes through Israeli Arabs, and sometimes directly). Therefore, attacking him is a fatal blow to the fundraising mechanism for West Bank terrorism.
   4. The man was hated by the Hamas leadership in Gaza, and therefore no one in the Gaza Strip is in mourning (to put it mildly).
   5. The man was hated in Jordan (the demonstrations following his death were in Zarqa and Irbid, which have a distinct Muslim Brotherhood core).
   6. The man was hated in Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia – and therefore did not receive an invitation to visit these countries (for any of the reconciliation talks that took place over the last decade).
   7. Even in the West Bank (he was born in Arura in the Ramallah governorate), there is no identification by the young people with him. There is identification with Gaza, there is identification with the resistance, and of course there is identification with the defense of al-Aqsa.
   8. The man was hated in Syria for his activity against the Assad regime at early in the civil war and was therefore expelled from Damascus.