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Al Jazeera Staff

From Paris to Beirut: Israel’s long record of assassinating Palestinians

Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin talks with future Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh at his home in the Gaza Strip in 2002. Yasin was assassinated in 2004 and Haniyeh in 2024 [File: Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters]

Hamas political boss Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran, Iran in the early hours of Wednesday, after the building where he was staying was struck in an attack that the Palestinian group blamed on Israel.

The group said that Haniyeh was killed “in a Zionist airstrike” on his residence in Tehran after he participated in the inauguration of Iran’s new president, Masoud Pezeshkian. His death comes a day after Israel targeted Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut.

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