Haniyeh was in Tehran to attend Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian’s swearing-in ceremony. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the assassination, but suspicion immediately fell on Israel.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the assassination, but suspicion immediately fell on Israel, which has vowed to kill Haniyeh and other leaders of Hamas over the group’sIsmail Haniyeh was in Tehran to attend Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian’s swearing-in ceremony.Hamas said Haniyeh was killed “in a Zionist airstrike on his residence in Tehran after he participated in the inauguration of Iran’s new president”.
“Hamas declares to the great Palestinian people and the people of the Arab and Islamic nations and all the free people of the world, brother leader Ismail Ismail Haniyeh a martyr,” the terse statement said. Haniyeh left the Gaza Strip in 2019 and had lived in exile in Qatar. The top Hamas leader in Gaza is Yehya Sinwar, who masterminded the October 7 attackHaniyeh was in Tehran to attend Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian’s swearing-in ceremony on Tuesday. Iran provided no details on how Haniyeh was killed, and the Guard said the attack was under investigation.
Israel is suspected of running a years long assassination campaign targeting Iranian nuclear scientists and others associated with its atomic program. In 2020, a top Iranian military nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was killed by a remote-controlled machine gun while travelling in a car outside Tehran.
In Israel’s war against Hamas since the October attack, more than 39,360 Palestinians have been killed and more than 90,900 wounded, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, whose count does not differentiate between civilians and combatants.
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