Katie Couric Instagram – 🚨The deputy head of Hamas and two leaders of its armed wing were killed in an explosion in Lebanon on Tuesday, the group said on its official Telegram channel. @nytimes is reporting that the deputy leader, Saleh al-Arouri, died in an explosion in a suburb of Beirut, according to Hamas. Lebanese state media reported that the blast occurred amid a meeting between Palestinian factions at a Hamas office. Eleven other people were injured in the attack, the agency reported. Mr. Arouri, one of the founders of Hamas’s military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, was elected the deputy chairman of Hamas’s political bureau in October 2017, accelerating what analysts and Israel officials contended was a closer relationship between Hamas and Hezbollah. Soon after his election, Mr. Arouri began to expand Hamas’s paramilitary infrastructure in Lebanon. This is a developing story with updates to come. #breakingnews