Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in 'Israeli raid' in Iran
Business StandardAmid the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict, Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh and one of his bodyguards have been killed in Tehran. "With condolences to the heroic nation of Palestine and the Islamic nation and combatants of the Resistant Front and the noble nation of Iran, this morning the residence of Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the political office of the Islamic Resistance of Hamas, was hit in Tehran, and following this incident, he and one of his bodyguards were martyred," the IRGC statement read. Iran's supreme leader vows revenge Earlier this year, an Israeli attack killed three of his sons in northern Gaza.Haniyeh left the Gaza Strip in 2019 and had been living in exile in Qatar. Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed revenge on Israel over the killing of Hamas' political chief.