The funeral of slain Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri and other Palestinians killed in a drone attack in Lebanon took place in Martyrs Cemetery in Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, Al Jazeera reports.

Al-Arouri was the Hamas’s deputy commander and the group’s most senior figure to have been killed since the start of Israel’s assault on Gaza on October 7.

“In every period of Palestinian history, we have leaders that rise up and then die. We’ll have more in the future. It’s cyclical,” a man attending the funeral said.

“Palestinians have lived through so many Israeli massacres in Lebanon and in Gaza. But God gives us dignity when we die,” said one Palestinian woman, who called al-Arouri a “martyr”.