NEW DELHI: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Iran‘s Tehran, the Palestinian militant group Hamas said in a statement on Wednesday, along with one of his bodyguards.
In a statement, the Islamist faction mourned the death of Haniyeh, who it said was killed in ‘a treacherous Zionist raid on his residence in Tehran’. “With condolences to the heroic nation of Palestine and the Islamic nation and the combatants of the Resistance Front and the noble nation of Iran, this morning [Wednesday] the residence of Mr.Dr. Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the political office of the Islamic Resistance of Hamas, was hit in Tehran, and following this incident, he and one of his bodyguards were martyred,” the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) statement read.
Suspicion has immediately fallen on Israel after the assassination of a high-profile individual, although no group has claimed responsibility. This development follows Israel’s vow to target Haniyeh and other Hamas leaders in retaliation for the group’s October 7 attack on Israel. The attack resulted in 1,200 deaths and approximately 250 hostages.
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