Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh (Picture: Reuters)
Amid the continued Israel-Palestine battle, Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh and certainly one of his bodyguards have been killed in Tehran. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has confirmed the killings in a press release.
The assertion provides that Ismail Haniyeh, the chief of the Islamist group Hamas that runs the Palestinian territory of Gaza, was “assassinated.”
“With condolences to the heroic nation of Palestine and the Islamic nation and combatants of the Resistant Entrance and the noble nation of Iran, this morning [Wednesday] the residence of Ismail Haniyeh, the pinnacle of the political workplace of the Islamic Resistance of Hamas, was hit in Tehran, and following this incident, he and certainly one of his bodyguards have been martyred,” the IRGC assertion learn.
The Islamist outfit has blamed Israel and claimed that Haniyeh was killed in a “treacherous Zionist raid on his residence in Tehran.” The group stated an investigation is ongoing to search out out extra particulars in regards to the assault.
Only a day earlier than his assassination, the Hamas chief attended the inauguration ceremony of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Tuesday. He additionally met Iran’s Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The killings come at a time when United States President Joe Biden’s administration is attempting to push Hamas and Israel to comply with at the least a short lived cease-fire and hostage launch deal.
Who was Ismail Haniyeh?
Hamas, the Palestinian political motion that guidelines the Gaza Strip, elected Ismail Abdulsalam Ahmed Haniya as the pinnacle of the group’s political bureau, changing Khaled Meshaal, on Might 6, 2017.
Born within the Shati refugee camp in Gaza to oldsters who fled from town of Asqalan after the state of Israel was created in 1948, Haniya studied on the al-Azhar Institute in Gaza and graduated with a level in Arabic literature from the Islamic College in Gaza.
Haniyeh left the Gaza Strip in 2019 and had been residing in exile in Qatar. It’s value mentioning that the highest Hamas chief in Gaza, Yehya Sinwar, masterminded the October 7 assault in Israel which sparked the newest Israel-Hamas battle.
First Revealed: Jul 31 2024 | 9:19 AM IST
