Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh killed in Tehran in Israeli strike, movement says

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh killed in Tehran in Israeli strike

The Revolutionary Guards, the ideological army of the Iranian Islamic Republic, said on Wednesday, July 31, that the political leader of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, had been killed in Tehran along with one of his bodyguards. According to the Islamist movement, he was assassinated by an Israeli strike.

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The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas said Wednesday that an Israeli strike in Tehran had killed its leader Ismail Haniyeh. “(Our) brother, the leader, the mujahid Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the movement, died in a Zionist raid on his headquarters in Tehran after his participation in the inauguration of the new president ” Iranian,” Hamas wrote in a statement.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said in a statement on Wednesday that Ismail Haniyeh and one of his bodyguards had been killed in Tehran, according to Iranian state media.

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