Tehran, Iran – Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh has been assassinated in Iran’s capital in an attack that the group blamed on Israel, raising tensions in a region that appears ever closer to the brink of all-out war.
The killing happened hours after Israel carried out another attack in Lebanon, targeting a senior Hezbollah commander. Hamas and Hezbollah are both part of the Iran-led ‘axis of resistance’, a loose grouping of outfits spanning the region that are united in their opposition to Israel’s occupation of Gaza and the West Bank and that have been locked in exchanges of missile fire with Israel during the current Gaza war since October 7.
