Assassination of a top Hamas leader spurs rallies worldwide.

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************** of a top ****** leader spurs rallies worldwide.

In Pakistan, Morocco, Mauritania, Turkey, Tunis, Jordan, the West Bank and beyond, people around the world took to the streets on Wednesday, responding to the apparent ************** of ******’s political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, in Iran.

Mr. Haniyeh was ******* in Tehran early Wednesday, where he had just attended the inauguration of the country’s new president. Although Iran and ****** announced Mr. Haniyeh’s ******, accusing ******* of the ********, they have given few details about what took place. ******* has neither officially acknowledged nor denied responsibility.

News of Mr. Haniyeh’s ****** came shortly after ******* said late on Tuesday that it had ******* Fouad Shukr, a senior Hezbollah commander in Lebanon, in a strike on the suburbs of Beirut. ******* said Mr. Shukr was responsible for the deaths of 12 children ******* in a violent ******* on a soccer field in the Druse ***** village of Majdal Shams in the ********-occupied Golan Heights on Saturday. Hezbollah had denied responsibility for that ******* but has claimed responsibility for a continual slew of strikes on northern ******* since the Oct. 7 ******-led ******* on ******* set off the war in Gaza.

The deaths of ****** and Hezbollah leaders have raised fears among international diplomats that a wider war in the Middle East — which they have been hoping to avoid through many months of diplomacy — may be nearing an inevitability.

Rally attendees on several continents carried images of Mr. Haniyeh and waved ************ flags as they marched. Mr. Haniyeh, who is reviled as a ********** in *******, and for whom the International ********* Court’s prosecutor was seeking a warrant arguing reasonable grounds to believe that he had committed war ******* and ******* against humanity, is being championed as a martyr for the ************ cause in some countries.

In Gaza, where civilians have endured nearly 10 months of fighting, destruction, ******** and hunger because of a war that ****** set off, Mr. Haniyeh’s ****** was met with mixed emotions, including apathy and anger about the ****** leader, who lived in Qatar.

In Karachi, Pakistan, his supporters led a procession with a

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that read, “Down With U.S.A.” and “Down With *******,” declaring their allegiance with ****** and its fallen leader.

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