INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh (Photo: Reuters)2 min read Last Updated : Jul 31 2024 | 9:43 AM IST
Amid the ongoing Israel-Palestine
conflict, Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh and one of his bodyguards have been killed in Tehran
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has confirmed the killings in a statement.
The statement adds that Ismail Haniyeh, the
leader 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 Front and the noble nation of Iran, this morning [Wednesday] the
residence of Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the political office of the Islamic Resistance of Hamas, was hit in Tehran, and following this
incident, he and one of his bodyguards were martyred," the IRGC statement read.
The Islamist outfit has blamed Israel and claimed that
Haniyeh was killed in a "treacherous Zionist raid on his residence in Tehran." The group said an investigation is ongoing to find out more
details about the attack.
Just a day before his assassination, the Hamas chief attended the inauguration ceremony of Iranian President
Masoud Pezeshkian on Tuesday
Hezbollah commander in southern Beirut.The killings come at a time when United States President Joe Biden's administration is trying to push
Khaled Meshaal, on May 6, 2017.
Born in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza to parents who fled from the city of Asqalan after the state of
Israel was created in 1948, Haniya studied at the al-Azhar Institute in Gaza and graduated with a degree in Arabic literature from the
Islamic University in Gaza.
Earlier this year, an Israeli attack killed three of his sons in northern Gaza.Haniyeh left the Gaza Strip in
2019 and had been living in exile in Qatar
It is worth mentioning that the top Hamas leader in Gaza, Yehya Sinwar, masterminded the October 7 attack in Israel which sparked the latest
Israel-Hamas war.First Published: Jul 31 2024 | 9:19 AMIST
