The head of the Palestinian resistance motion Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, was assassinated in Tehran together with considered one of his bodyguards, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards stated Wednesday.
“The residence of Ismail Haniyeh, head of the political office of Hamas Islamic Resistance, was hit in Tehran, and as a result of this incident, him and one of his bodyguards were martyred,” stated an announcement by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’s Sepah news web site.
Hamas introduced that Haniyeh was killed in an Israeli raid on his residence in Tehran.
“Brother, leader, mujahid Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the movement, died in a Zionist strike on his headquarters in Tehran after he participated in the inauguration of the new (Iranian) president,” the motion stated in an announcement.
Calling Haniyeh’s assassination a “cowardly act,” Hamas vowed to take revenge from Israel.
No one instantly claimed duty for the assassination however suspicion instantly fell on Israel, which has vowed to kill Haniyeh and different leaders of Hamas over the group’s Oct. 7 assault on Israel.
Haniyeh was in Tehran to attend Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian’s swear-in ceremony on Tuesday.
Analysts on Iranian state tv instantly started blaming Israel for the assault.
Israel itself didn’t instantly remark nevertheless it typically does not in the case of assassinations carried out by their Mossad intelligence company.
Israel is suspected of operating a yearslong assassination marketing campaign concentrating on Iranian nuclear scientists and others related to its atomic program. In 2020, a prime Iranian navy nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was killed by a remote-controlled machine gun whereas touring in a automotive outdoors Tehran.
Israel was additionally behind the killing of a few of Haniyeh’s members of the family, together with his sister, in an assault within the western Gaza City.
According to medical sources, at the very least 10 folks of the Haniyeh household had been killed in an Israeli airstrike on their dwelling within the Beach refugee camp, western Gaza City.
On April 10, Haniyeh misplaced three of his sons in an Israeli airstrike on their automotive within the Beach camp.
In Israel’s battle towards Hamas because the October assault, greater than 39,360 Palestinians, principally ladies and kids, have been killed and greater than 90,900 wounded.
Source: www.dailysabah.com