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Political Bureau Chief of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh has been killed in Tehran, said Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Wednesday. Hamas also released a statement mourning Haniyeh’s death saying he was killed in “a treacherous Zionist raid on his residence in Tehran”.
“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,” said a statement by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’s Sepah news website
While no one has claimed responsibility for the assassination yet, the suspicion has immediately fell on Israel, which vowed to kill Haniyeh and other leaders of the Palestinian armed group over the outfit’s October 7 attacks, reported Associated Press. As many as 1,200 Israelis were killed in the offensive and some 250 were taken as hostages after the attack which sparked the war in Gaza that has resulted in one of the worst humanitarian crisis killing more than 39,360 Palestinians.
Iran’s statement has also not given details on how Haniyeh was killed and the Guards said the attack was under investigation, the report added.
The Hamas top leader was in Iran’s capital Tehran to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Masoud Pezeshkian, which, notably was also attended by Union Minister Nitin Gadkari.
In his last interview to Turkish news agency Anadolu, Haniyeh had alleged that Israel wanted to take back its hostages and restart the war in Gaza and demanded that Israel army must completely withdraw from beseiged strip.
