Hamas Leader Ismal Haniyeh Killed In Iran

Suspicions were rife on Tuesday night after the political leader of Hamas Ismail Haniyeh was killed in what many have described as an assassination.

GWG.ng reports that Hamas confirmed the assassination in a statement early on Wednesday.

In a statement released on Wednesday, Hamas said Haniyeh was killed in an Israeli raid on his residence in Tehran.

According to the group, Haniyeh died after participating in the inauguration ceremony of the new Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian who was sworn in on Tuesday.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps said the cause of the “incident” was not immediately clear but was “being investigated”, AFP news agency reported.

Haniyeh, 62, was a prominent member of the Hamas movement in the late 1980s.

Israel imprisoned Haniyeh for three years in 1989 as it cracked down on the first Palestinian uprising.

He was then exiled in 1992 to a no-man’s-land between Israel and Lebanon, along with a number of Hamas leaders.

GWG.ng reports that Israel has not confirmed any role in the killing of the Hamas leader who leads a group that the country has sworn to uproot from the face of the earth.

The death of Ismail Haniyeh came after Israel intensified its activities against another militant group, Hezbollah on Tuesday.

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