2024-07-31 04:24:00
LThe Revolutionary Guards, the ideological army of the Iranian Islamic Republic, confirmed, Thursday, July 31, that the political leader of the Islamist group of Palestine Hamas, Ismaïl Haniyeh, was killed in Tehran along with one of his guards. The statement was immediately confirmed by Hamas itself.
“The residence of Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the political office of the Islamic resistance of Hamas, was attacked in Tehran, and as a result of this incident, he and one of his bodyguards were killed,” the Revolutionary Guard Assembly said in a statement. on your Sepah information site.
The IDF did not comment
A confirmation from Hamas came shortly after the Iranian announcement, the terrorist group accusing Israel of an attack: ” [Notre] brother, leader, mujahid Ismaïl Haniyeh, leader of the movement, died in a Zionist attack against his residence in Tehran after his participation in the inauguration of the new Iranian president, the terrorist group wrote in a statement. Moussa Abou Marzouk, a member of the Hamas political office, said in a statement, “The massacre of leader Ismaïl Haniyeh is an act of terror that will not be answered.”
On the part of the Palestinian Authority, its President Mahmoud Abbas “condemned the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, which he considered an act of terror and a great aggrandizement,” Mahmoud Abbas’ office said in a statement.
Asked by AFP, the Israeli army did not want to comment.
Hezbollah military commander Fouad Chokr “left” in Beirut
This possible Israeli strike comes a day after an earlier IDF strike in Lebanon, south of Beirut. The Jewish state confirmed that it had “removed” Fouad Chokr, the military leader of Hezbollah, who was designated as “responsible” for the deadly shooting on the Golan and added that he had promised to take revenge. However, Fouad Chokr’s death has not been confirmed from an independent source as of Tuesday evening.
Ismaïl Haniyeh is still in exile between Qatar and Turkey. On Tuesday, he was in the capital of Iran, where he met Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian, who was elected shortly after the death of his predecessor Ebrahim Raïssi, called the “killer of Tehran” by the Western media, in the fall of his plane, on June 19. .
Turkey and Russia blamed
Turkey, through its Ministry of Foreign Affairs, condemned the killing of Ismaïl Haniyeh “in a shameful act in Tehran”, noting that “this attack also aims to extend the war in Gaza to a regional area”. The ministry explained “ [ses] comfort to the Palestinians who sacrificed hundreds of thousands of martyrs like Haniyeh in order to live in peace in their homeland under the roof of their own city. Ismaïl Haniyeh was received in April in Istanbul by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
“This is a completely unacceptable political assassination, and it will lead to further escalation of tensions,” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov also told state news agency RIA Novosti.
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