Prominent Palestinian Hamas leader killed in Tehran
DAMASCUS, Syria (North Press) – Palestinian Hamas political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, killed in an Israeli airstrike in Iran’s capital Tehran on Wednesday, the group said in a statement.
The Hamas statement said the group mourned Haniyeh “who died as a result of a treacherous Zionist raid on his residence in Tehran, after participating in the inauguration ceremony of the new Iranian president.”
The Associated Press (AP) said that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) confirmed Haniyeh’s killing which was reported on Iranian State TV early on Wednesday morning, with analysts also claiming Israel killed Haniyeh.
Haniyeh’s death came just hours after Israel claimed it killed Hezbollah’s top military commander, Fuad Shukur, in an airstrike on a south Beirut suburb launched in retaliation for a rocket attack that killed 12 children at the weekend.