Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh killed in airstrike in Iran – National

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****** leader Ismail Haniyeh ******* in airstrike in Iran – National

Ismail Haniyeh, ******’ top leader in exile who landed on *******’****** list after the militant group staged its surprise Oct. 7 attacks, was ******* in an airstrike in the Iranian capital early Wednesday. He was 62.

****** said Haniyeh was ******* at his residence in Tehran in an ******** airstrike after he attended the swearing-in ceremony of Iran’s new president. ******* has not commented on the accusation.

Haniyeh’s ****** would make him the latest ****** official to be ******* by ******* since the ******-led Oct. 7 attacks, when militants ******* 1,200 people and took about 250 hostages.

The devastating *******-****** conflict the attacks set off has become the deadliest and longest in the *****-******** conflict. More than 39,000 Palestinians have been *******, according to health officials in Gaza.

****** chief Ismail Haniyeh arrives at the Iranian parliament to attend the swearing-in ceremony of newly-elected President Masoud Pezeshkian, in Tehran, Iran on Tuesday.

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While ******’ Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar is believed to have been the mastermind of the attacks, Haniyeh, head of the group’s political bureau who was seen as a more moderate force in ******, lauded them as a humiliating ***** to *******’s aura of invincibility.

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“The Al-Aqsa flood was an earthquake that struck the heart of the Zionist entity and has made major changes at the world level,” Haniyeh said in a speech in Iran during the ******** of late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in May.

“We will continue the resistance against this ****** until we liberate our land, all our land,” Haniyeh said.

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Hours after the Oct. 7 attacks, Haniyeh appeared in a video released by ****** leading prayers with other top ****** officials. They thanked **** for the success of the *******, which blasted through *******’s vaunted defenses and resulted in the deadliest ******** in *******’s history.

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Michael Milshtein, a ****** expert at Tel Aviv University, said Haniyeh had a commanding role in the group’s foreign policy and diplomacy, but was less involved in military affairs.

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“He was responsible for ***********, for diplomatic relations, but he was not very powerful,” said Milshtein, a former military intelligence officer. “From time to time, Sinwar even laughed and joked: ‘He’s the more moderate, sophisticated leader, but he doesn’t understand anything about warfare.’”

Still, ******* pledged to target all of ******’ leaders following the attacks and has gradually worked to fulfill that promise.

Haniyeh was also under the eye of the International ********* Court, whose chief prosecutor sought arrest warrants against him and two other ****** leaders, Sinwar and Mohammed Deif, for war ******* and ******* against humanity. Similar requests were issued for ******** Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.

Haniyeh lived in self-imposed exile in Qatar since 2019 and the threats against him did not prevent him from traveling. He visited Turkey and Iran throughout the conflict From Doha, he was involved in negotiations meant to bring about a cease-***** and free the hostages.

His role in ******’ leadership also cost him his closest relatives. In April, an ******** airstrike in Gaza ******* three of Haniyeh’s sons, after which he accused ******* of acting in “the spirit of revenge and *******.”

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****** said four of the leader’s grandchildren were also ******* as well as his sister in a separate strike last month.

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Haniyeh, who was born in Gaza’s urban Shati ******** camp, joined ****** when it was founded in 1987. He served as an aid to Ahmad Yassin, the group’s founder, and rose throughout the years until he became its top political leader, replacing Khaled Mashaal in 2017.

Haniyeh was deeply religious and studied Arabic literature at university. He was known for delivering lengthy speeches using flowery language to his supporters while serving as prime minister in Gaza.

Hani Masri, a veteran ************ analyst who met Haniyeh several times, said the late leader’s personality was a natural fit for the head of the group’s political bureau in Doha. He described him as having been sociable and well spoken.

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Haniyeh, like thousands of other Palestinians, was detained by ******** authorities in 1989 for being a member of ****** and spent three years in jail before he was deported to Lebanon in 1992 with a group of top ****** officials and founders. He later returned to the Gaza Strip following the 1993 interim peace accords, which were signed between ******* and the Palestine Liberation Organization.

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Haniyeh assumed the position of prime minister in the ************ government after ****** won legislative elections in 2006. He presided over the gravest crisis in the ************ leadership in its history, which continues until today.

****** violently overran Gaza in 2007, routing forces loyal to ************ President Mahmoud Abbas’ ****** faction and installing itself as ruler of the tiny coastal enclave, with Haniyeh as prime minister.

Iranian media on Wednesday quoted a past speech by Haniyeh in which he said the ************ cause has “costs.”

“We are ready for these costs: martyrdom for the sake of Palestine, and for the sake of **** Almighty, and for the sake of the dignity of this nation.”

Associated Press writer Jack Jeffery in Ramallah, West Bank and Melanie Lidman in Tel Aviv, *******, contributed to this report.

 

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