Haniyeh’s assassination ‘will not go unpunished’, says Hamas official

Haniyeh’s assassination ‘will not go unpunished’, says Hamas official

News July 31, 2024
Haniyeh’s assassination ‘will not go unpunished’, says Hamas official
Doha (Quds News Network)- The assassination of the head of Hamas's political bureau Ismail Haniyeh is a “cowardly act that will not go unpunished”, senior Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzouk said on Wednesday. Haniyeh was assassinated in the Iranian capital Tehran, the Palestinian group said in a statement on Wednesday morning. Haniyeh had travelled 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 News Agency reported that one of Haniyeh's bodyguards was also killed when their residence in the capital city was targeted. 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.

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