2024-07-31 13:29:45
The political leader of the Palestinian extremist group Hamas, is considered a terrorist by the US and the EU Ismail Haniyeh He was killed as a result of an Israeli attack in Tehran. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) released the information on the morning of July 31.
Hamas confirmed this news on the Telegram channel on July 31. There is no confirmation from Israel yet.
Hamas said Haniyeh was “killed in an airstrike at his residence in Tehran after he attended the inauguration ceremony of Iran’s new president (Massoud Pezeshkian).”
Haniya left the Gaza Strip in 2019 and lived in exile in Qatar. The leader of Hamas in Gaza is Yahya Sinvar, who is believed to be the main organizer of the October 7 attack.
After Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, killing 1,200 people and taking 250 hostages, Israel said it would kill Haniyeh and other leaders of the group.
Iran did not elaborate on how Haniyeh was killed, but the ICC said it was investigating the attack.
Analysts on Iranian state television began to blame Israel for the attack.
President of Iran Masoud Pezeshkian also responded to the murder of Ismail Haniya. He said on July 31 that his country “will defend its territorial integrity, its dignity, its honor and its pride, and that the invading terrorists will regret their cowardly actions.”
Pezashkian did not provide any additional information about this statement published by Iranian media.
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According to the Palestinian state news agency WAFA, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the killing, calling it a “cowardly act and a dangerous event”.
Several countries condemned the attack, Russia called it an “unacceptable political murder”, and Turkey warned that this incident could widen the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd bought me (Lloyd Austin) told reporters on a visit to the Philippines that “I have no further information to give.”
The White House has not yet responded to the incident. At the time of this apparent assassination, the Biden administration was trying to reach an agreement between Hamas and Israel regarding a temporary ceasefire and the release of hostages.
For years, Israel has been suspected of murdering Iranian nuclear scientists and others associated with the atomic program. In 2020, Iran’s top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was killed in his car near Tehran.
The commander of “Hezbollah” was killed.
Israel, on July 30, the front commander of the group “Hezbollah”. Kidnapping ŞükürHe declared that he “got it”. Israel says it was behind a rocket attack that killed 12 Israeli children and teenagers over the weekend. Shukur was shot dead in his apartment in Beirut.
Officials at Hezbollah, which the United States considers a terrorist organization, have not yet confirmed that Shukur was killed in the attack.
The Israel Defense Forces claimed in a post on the X social network on July 30 that Shukur “ordered” the Hezbollah attacks.
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