TOKYO — Just over two months ago, Ismail Haniyeh, one of the most senior leaders of the Palestinian militant organization Hamas, was reportedly assassinated by Israeli elements in Tehran, the capital of Iran, where he attended the Iranian presidential inauguration, although this was never publicly acknowledged nor denied by Israel.
In the immediate aftermath, it appeared that the majority of the Muslim world, including many Muslim communities and leaders in Southeast Asia, voiced their condemnation.Fast forward two months later. Late last month, Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Lebanese Hezbollah militant group, was also killed by Israel using powerful bunker-busting bombs in a Hezbollah underground hideout in Lebanon. This time around, Israel made a public announcement to that effect.
Hence the outpouring of condemnation of his assassination.Hezbollah, on the other hand, is a militant organization created by the Shia minority in Lebanon to protect their interests following the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in the early 1980s and amid the chaos of the Lebanese civil war, which saw the tug-of-war between various similar Lebanese militant groups.
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