(CTN News) – Early on Wednesday, Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard announced the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran. Hamas attributed the assault to Israel.
After 1,200 people were murdered and another 250 more were held captive in Hamas’ onslaught on Israel on October 7, Israel has pledged to assassinate Haniyeh and other Hamas leaders.
A request for a response from an Israeli military official was not immediately answered. When it comes to killings carried out by its intelligence organization, Mossad, Israel often doesn’t.
Hamas says its leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran by an Israeli airstrike
“In a Zionist airstrike on his residence in Tehran, after he participated in the inauguration of Iran’s new president,” according to Hamas, Haniyeh met his end.
The brief statement said, “Hamas declares brother leader Ismail Ismail Haniyeh a martyr to the great Palestinian people, the people of the Arab and Islamic nations, and all the free people of the world.”
The organization cited Haniyeh in another statement, stating that “we are ready for these costs: martyrdom for the sake of Palestine, and for the sake of God Almighty, and the sake of the dignity of this nation,” and that there are “costs” associated with the Palestinian cause.
Requests for further information were not immediately answered by Hamas representatives. 2019 saw Haniyeh flee the Gaza Strip, where he had been living in exile in Qatar. Yehya Sinwar is the chief Hamas figure in Gaza and was the planner of the assault on October 7.
Three of Haniyeh’s sons and four of his grandkids were killed in an Israeli attack in Gaza in April.
During continuing cease-fire talks with Israel, Haniyeh said in an interview with the satellite station Al Jazeera that Hamas would not be under any pressure to budge from its views as a result of the deaths.
Along with other Hamas representatives, Hezbollah representatives, and representatives of allied organizations, Haniyeh was in Tehran on Tuesday to witness the swearing-in of Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian. Iran withheld information on Haniyeh’s manner of death, and the Guard said that the incident was being looked into.
The moment the strike occurred, pundits on Iranian official television started accusing Israel.
Haniyeh’s death follows an unusual raid on Beirut by Israel, which it said claimed the life of senior Hezbollah military leader Fouad Shukur. Hezbollah has not verified Shukur’s death from the hit, which also left scores of others injured and at least one lady and two children dead.
The attack occurred as tensions with the extremist Lebanese organisation became more intense. Shukur is also accused by the United States of organising and carrying out the fatal Marine bombardment on the Lebanese capital in 1983.
The White House did not respond right away. The timing of the purported killing is problematic since Israel and Hamas have been under pressure from the Biden administration to reach a deal on hostage release and at least a temporary cease-fire.
In the most recent round of negotiations, top representatives from Egypt, Qatar, and Israel met with CIA Director Bill Burns on Sunday in Rome. The White House Coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa, Brett McGurk, is also in the area for discussions with American allies.
It is believed that Israel has been conducting a multi-year murder operation against Iranian nuclear scientists and other individuals connected to the country’s atomic programme. Top Iranian military nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was assassinated in 2020 while driving outside of Tehran by a remote-controlled machine rifle.
Over 39,360 Palestinians have died and over 90,900 have been injured in Israel’s battle against Hamas since the October offensive, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, whose tally does not distinguish between militants and civilians.
Source: Yahoo News
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