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REGIONAL WAR. Activists and supporters of Jamaat-e-Islami party offer absentia funeral prayers for Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh after his assassination in an air strike in Quetta on Wednesday. Pakistan said the killing of Hamas political leader Haniyeh was a ‘reckless act,’ describing his assassination in an air strike blamed on Israel as ‘terrorism.
It came just hours after Israel targeted and killed top Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in a retaliatory strike on the Lebanese capital Beirut, sending fears of a wider regional war soaring.Khamenei, who has the final say in Iran’s political affairs, said after Haniyeh’s death that it was “our duty to seek revenge for his blood as he was martyred in the territory of the Islamic Republic of Iran”.
The international community, however, called for de-escalation and a focus on securing a ceasefire in Gaza. From the early hours of Wednesday, crowds took to the streets in cities across Iran and the Middle East to condemn Haniyeh’s killing, with hundreds gathering in Tehran’s Palestine Square to chant “Death to Israel, Death to America”.While Iran has blamed the attack on its arch-foe, Israel has declined to comment on Haniyeh’s death. It did, however, claim the killing of Shukr, whom it blamed for a deadly weekend rocket strike on the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights.
The UN Security Council also convened an emergency meeting Wednesday at Iran’s request to discuss the strike, with Tehran’s envoy Amir Saeid Iravani urging members to take “immediate action to ensure accountability for these violations of international law”.
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