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Hamas leader eliminated!
Updated On: 01 August, 2024 05:50 AM IST | Beirut | Agencies
Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed in an airstrike in Tehran, had been on Israel’s hit list since October 7 attack
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Hamas said Ismail Haniyeh was killed at his residence in Tehran on Wednesday. Pic/X
Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s supreme leader in exile who landed on Israel’s hit list after the militant group staged its surprise October 7 attacks, was killed in an airstrike in the Iranian capital early Wednesday. He was 61. Hamas said Haniyeh was killed at his residence in Tehran in an Israeli airstrike after he attended the swearing-in ceremony of Iran’s new president. Israel has not commented on the accusation.
Haniyeh’s death makes him the latest Hamas official to be killed by Israel since the Hamas-led October 7 attacks, when militants killed 1,200 people and took about 250 hostages. The devastating Israel-Hamas war the attacks set off has become the deadliest and longest in the Arab-Israeli conflict. More than 39,000 Palestinians have been killed, according to health officials in Gaza.
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