Blinken denies US involvement in murder of Hamas political chief Haniyeh

Washington DC. (Quds News Network)- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken denied the United States’ involvement in the assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh.

Blinken said his country “was not aware of or involved in” the killing of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh, which has escalated already heightened tensions across the region.

“I can’t tell you what this means. I can tell you that the imperative of getting a ceasefire, the importance that that has for everyone, remains,” Blinken added, according to a transcript shared by his staff from an interview with Channel News Asia in Singapore.

Israel had killed Haniyeh in the early hours of Wednesday in Tehran, where he was attending the swearing-in ceremony of Iran’s new President Masoud Pezeshkian, escalating the already tensed situation. Both Hamas and Iran promised to retaliate for the crime.