Ismail Haniyeh, the political and diplomatic chief of Hamas, was killed at his residence in Tehran on Wednesday morning, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps mentioned. Haniyeh’s bodyguard can also be claimed to have been killed.
The IRGC assertion mentioned:
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Condolences this morning to the courageous nation of Palestine and the Islamic nation and the fighters of the resistance entrance and the noble nation of Iran. [Wednesday] The residence of Mr. Dr. Ismail Haniyah, head of the Political Workplace of the Islamic Resistance of Hamas in Tehran, was hit and he and one among his bodyguards have been martyred.
Haniyeh was elected as Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority in 2006, serving till his dismissal in 2007 by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Haniyeh had been dwelling in Qatar since 2017, having moved there after succeeding Khaled Mashaal because the political chief of Hamas. Haniyeh was in Tehran for the swearing-in of Iran’s new president, Massoud Pezeshkian.
Together with Hamas navy chief Yahya Sinwar, Haniyeh was the Sunni militant group’s two strongest males. The Worldwide Prison Court docket issued an arrest warrant towards him in late Could. Hamas responded to Haniyeh’s killing by releasing its personal assertion, which claimed that Haniyeh was killed in a “treacherous Zionist assault on his residence in Tehran”.
