Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed by a predawn air strike in the Iranian capital Tehran on Wednesday, Iran and the militant group said, blaming Israel for a shock assassination. Israel had vowed to kill Haniyeh and other leaders of Hamas over the October 7 attacks.
Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed in an air strike in Tehran early Wednesday, was the head of Hamas’s political wing and a former Palestinian prime minister whose membership in the Islamist militant group dated back to its inception.
