Air attack targeted Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, reports say

Tehran(Quds News Network)- Iranian media have reported that Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed by an “airborne guided projectile” that hit the residence where he was staying in the north of the capital Tehran on Wednesday.

According to reports, the attack took place at about 2am local time (22:30 GMT on Tuesday) at a special residence for military veterans in the north of the city.
The Palestinian group Hamas confirmed this morning in a statement the assassiantion of the head of its political bureau Ismail Haniyeh.
Haniyeh had traveled to Tehran to attend Tuesday’s inauguration of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. This visit marked Haniyeh’s final public appearance.
“The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas mourns to our great Palestinian people, to the Arab and Islamic nation, and to all the free people of the world: Brother, leader, martyr, Mujahid Ismail Haniyeh,” Hamas said in the statement.

“The head of the movement, who was killed in a treacherous Zionist raid on his residence in Tehran, after participating in the inauguration ceremony of the new Iranian president.”

Israel has not yet commented on the assassination incident.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard announced that it would investigate the incident: “We are studying the dimensions of Haniyeh’s martyrdom incident in Tehran.”

On May 6, 2017, Hamas, the Palestinian political movement that rules the Gaza Strip, elected Ismail Haniyeh as the head of its political bureau, replacing Khaled Meshaal.

Haniyeh was imprisoned multiple times by Israeli occupation authorities and lived in and out of the Gaza Strip after facing deportation and assassination attempts.