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Breaking Middle East crisis: Hamas's political chief Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh killed in Iran, group says
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh has been killed in Tehran, the Palestinian militant group Hamas has said.
In a statement, the Islamist faction mourned the death of Haniyeh, who it said was killed in “a treacherous Zionist raid on his residence in Tehran”.
Earlier, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said he had been targeted in his residence along with an Iranian bodyguard. It said he had been in Iran to attend the inauguration of President Masoud Pezeshkian. It said it was investigating the circumstances of the “incident”.
Haniyeh was the exiled political chief of the militant group and had spent much of his time in recent years in Qatar. During the Israel-Gaza war he had acted as a negotiator in the ceasefire talks and liased with Hamas’s main ally, Iran.
Israel has yet to comment on his killing.
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