Top Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh has been eliminated in an overnight strike in Iran, the Islamic terrorist group said.
The 62-year old terrorist was killed in his Tehran home where he was visiting from Qatar to attend the inauguration of the Iranian President Masour Pezeshkian.
Haniyeh’s death was also confirmed by Arab media and Iran’s Islamic Guard Corps (IRGC) terrorist group. “According to the Saudi Al-Arabiya news channel, Haniyeh was killed along with a bodyguard by a missile that targeted him in his bed at around 2 in the morning,” Israeli TV channel i24NEWS reported.
The Israeli government and the armed forces are yet to comment of the strike that killed one of the main masterminds of the October 7 massacre, news reports say.
The Israeli news website YNET reported:
Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran, Hamas said on Wednesday, attributing the killing to Israel. (…)Haniyeh was in Iran to attend the inauguration of President Masour Pezeshkian. He met with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei along with Islamic Jihad leader Ziyad al-Nakhalah on Tuesday.
Hamas blamed Israel for the “treacherous Zionist attack” on the “sons of our great Palestinian people, the Arab and Islamic nation,” an apparent reference to the terror group’s slain leader and his bodyguard.
The Islamic terrorist group vowed to avenge the killing of its terrorist chief. According to the France24 TV channel,”a senior Hamas official said that Haniyeh’s death “will not go unanswered”.”
The Iranian regime vowed to deepen its terrorist alliance with Hamas in the wake of Haniyeh’s killing. “Iran’s foreign ministry said the “martydom” of Haniyeh will “strengthen the deep and unbreakable bond between Tehran, Palestine and the resistance”,” the BBC reported quoting the Iranian media.
Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the killed of the top Hamas terrorist .”In the West Bank, the internationally backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned Haniyeh’s killing, calling it a “cowardly act and dangerous development.” Political factions in the occupied territory called for strikes in protest of the killing,” the Associated Press reported.
Russia and Turkey also condemned the killed of the top Hamas terrorist.
News of Haniyeh’s elimination comes hours after an alleged Israeli airstrike took out Hezbollah terror commander, Fuad Shukr, who was behind Saturday’s rocket attack on a playground that killed 12 children in northern Israel.
The IDF in statement on Tuesday described Shukr as “Hezbollah’s Most Senior Military Commander and Hassan Nasrallah’s Right-Hand Man.” He was also wanted for his role in 1983 Beirut Marine barracks bombing that killed 241 U.S. and 58 French military personnel.
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