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IDF conducts strike in Beirut targeting commander behind attack on children's soccer field
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran, Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard announced Wednesday, but nobody immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.
Israel was immediately blamed for the assassination after pledging to kill Haniyeh and other Hamas leaders over the terrorist group's Oct. 7 attack on the Jewish State, which killed 1,200 people and roughly 250 others were abducted, according to the Associated Press.
Haniyeh was in Tehran for Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian's swearing-in on Tuesday. Pezeshkian was sworn in with chants of "Death to America, Israel."
On Tuesday morning, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei posted on the social media platform X that he met with Haniyah and Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement Secretary General Ziyad al-Nakhalah.
Ismail Haniyeh, leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, speaks to journalists after his meeting with Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, in Beirut, Lebanon, June 28, 2021. (AP)
Iran did not provide any details on how Haniyeh was killed. The incident is under investigation.
Analysts on Iranian state television immediately cast blame on Israel for the assassination.
Israel did not immediately comment, but it usually does not make public comments on assassinations carried out by their Mossad intelligence agency.
"The fact that such a high-ranking Hamas leader was assassinated on Iranian soil was an added bonus for Israel particularly directly after he participated in the inauguration ceremony of the new Islamic Republic president," Lisa Daftari, Middle East analyst and editor-in-chief at The Foreign Desk, told Fox News.
"It sends a clear message that Israel does not differentiate between the Islamic Republic and its proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah."...
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Sources are saying Haniyeh was killed by a targeted air strike possibly a drone. Regardless Haniyeh was a ruthless terrorist that was responsible for the death of hundreds of people. The world is a better place without him. Moon will be in the morning today. Haw...haw....haw.
You have love Israel's guts.