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Tehran, Iran – 30 July 2024
1. Various of Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’ supreme leader, in Iran’s parliament chamber, embracing and greeting various officials during the swearing-in ceremony of Iran’s new president
2. Various of lawmakers and Haniyeh making victory signs
3. Haniyeh embracing President Masoud Pezeshkian
STORYLINE:
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Iran after attending the inauguration of the country’s new president, Iran and the militant group said early Wednesday.
Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said it was investigating the attack and did not say how it occurred, but Hamas blamed an Israeli airstrike for its leader’s death.
An Israeli military spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Israel often doesn’t comment on assassinations carried out by its Mossad intelligence agency.
But it has vowed to kill Haniyeh and other leaders of Hamas over the group’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel that killed 1,200 people and saw some 250 others taken hostage.
Hamas said Haniyeh was killed “in a Zionist airstrike on his residence in Tehran" after he attended the swearing-in of Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian on Tuesday.
In another statement, the group quoted Haniyeh as saying that the Palestinian cause had “costs” and “we are ready for these costs: martyrdom for the sake of Palestine… for the sake of the dignity of this nation.”
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 at the killing.
Haniyeh left the Gaza Strip in 2019 and had lived in exile in Qatar.
The top Hamas leader in Gaza is Yehya Sinwar, who masterminded the Oct. 7 attack.
In April, an Israeli airstrike in Gaza killed three of Haniyeh’s sons and four of his grandchildren.
In an interview with the Al Jazeera satellite channel at the time, Haniyeh said the killings would not pressure Hamas into softening its positions amid ongoing cease-fire negotiations with Israel.
The killing of Haniyeh came after Israel carried out a rare strike on Beirut, which it said killed Fouad Shukur, a top Hezbollah military commander.
Hezbollah has not confirmed Shukur’s death in the strike, which also killed at least one woman and two children and wounded dozens of people.
The strike came amid escalating hostilities with the Lebanese militant group.
AP video by Saeed Sarmadi
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