Late Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. (File image via Press TV)
The political leader of the Hamas Movement Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated early on July 31 in Iran’s capital, Tehran, according to a statement from the group that governs the Gaza Strip, which held Israel responsible.
Haniyeh and one of his bodyguards were killed after the building where they were staying was struck, Hamas said in a statement, noting that Haniyeh was in Tehran to attend the inauguration ceremony of Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian.
“The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas mourns to our great Palestinian people, to the Arab and Islamic nation, and to all the free people of the world: Brother, leader, martyr, Mujahid Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the movement, who was killed in a treacherous Zionist raid on his residence in Tehran,” the group said.
In another statement, the group quoted Haniyeh as saying that the Palestinian cause has “costs” and “we are ready for these costs: martyrdom for the sake of Palestine, and for the sake of God Almighty, and for the sake of the dignity of this nation.”
Haniyeh left Gaza in 2019 and had lived in exile in Qatar. The top Hamas chief in Gaza is Yehya Sinwar, who is thought to be the mastermind behind the October 7 surprise attack on Israel.
One of the Israeli strikes that targeted the Strip last April claimed the lives of three of Haniyeh’s sons and four of his grandchildren.
In the West Bank, the internationally backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the assassination of Haniyeh, calling it a “cowardly act and dangerous development.” Political factions in the occupied territory called for strikes in protest at the killing.
The assassination of Hamas chief was later confirmed by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which didn’t provide any details.
“Early this morning, the residence of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran was struck, resulting in his and one of his bodyguards’ martyrdom. The cause is under investigation and will be announced soon,” the guards said in a statement.
Israel has not yet addressed the assassination. The country often doesn’t comment on targeted killings carried out by its Mossad intelligence agency.
This was not the first time Israel was held responsible for an assassination in Iran. The Mossad is suspected of running a yearslong assassination campaign targeting Iranian nuclear scientists and IRGC commanders. In 2020, a top Iranian military nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was killed by a remote-controlled machine gun while traveling in a car outside Tehran.
While the assassination of Haniyeh in Tehran will lead to more escalation, it will not likely provoke a direct military response from Iran.
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no longer useful to the ziopuppets in iran.
ukraine has not reported all of russia’s drone and missile strikes. social media is a good backdoor to bypass ukrainian and west censorship.
i am writing here on the southern front because there is no censorship here at all! i have also been on the road in western and ukrainian networks for a long time, unfortunately my comments are constantly censored there. that’s why i always come back to the southfront.
they’re not censored. i don’t understand slavic languages.
censorship is rampant on western platforms like twitter.
i’ve been censored here for criticizing putin, but in a way that is favorable to donbass. eg. i don’t think putin did enough for donbass back in the old days, and was really mad at him.
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wtf you are talking about? we’re dealing with other situation here.
exactly ! so please folks remember .. just weeks ago i told all of you here exactly this. iran is compromised and infiltrated. iranian president was murdered and replaced by israeli agent. the agent will give all the names and location of important hezbollah,hamas and iranian leaders to usrael. and usrael will kill them and start big war against lebanon and finally iran.
and apart from the above it is very likely israel- by the assasination – wants to send a message to mr. erdogan, with the message being: ” look, will kill all of those who dare to take up arms against us”. but i think this jewish acts & threats will – thank god – fall on deaf ears and muslims will double down on eradicating the cancer called israel and all the jewish vermin creeping around in the middle-east. problem is only the infiltration israel did (see above)
and for those really did in the strategic stuff behind this. i not say it will, but it is likely that israel will now try to – one way or the other – get rid of the iranian prime ayatollah khamenei. because when he is gone then iran is fully defenceless, ruled by the traitor masoud pezeshkian. so iranian revolutionary corps and pasdaran etc. should kill pezeshkian before he does more harm to iran.
well, if a ziobot like yourself want him dead, that’s mean he’s one of the good ones.
i think you will see more commanders in hezbollah and hamas who have popularity starting to do their own thing. now the command structure that is alive will never give their trust away for free again. there are a lot of palestinians who have lost basically everything and the lure of zio-money is not there at all. they cannot be bribed or blackmailed, and at this point will only stop at the end of israel or their own lives. if they were properly armed, they would be the elite of the elite.
you don’t have any clue, do you?
teresa, no clue? oh boy ! just look at the facts – israel assassinated hamas top leader inside tehran ! auguration ceremony of new “iranian president” !!!! wake up man ? where do you think israel got the info from that haniyah would attend that ceremony ? iran is infiltrated, they need to get the traitors and kill them. otherwise all future wars against israel are lost before they’ve even begun. teresa & hyh are the most accurate commentator on this board !
i see one little paradox. israel knew where were irani generals hiding in syria and attacked them in the precise time and particular building killing them. israel knew as well where is hamas leader in iran and killed him. it is mind blowing that they were “not informed” about a large hamas operation which served as a pretext to start war in gaza later. or maybe they were informed but decided let it go as it served their own agenda. or even worse, they initiated it inside hamas.
it is known that netanyahu and israel’s spy network knew about this. they kept it a secret despite knowing that it would happen. my guess is they did it in the hopes they would gain more support from israelis and abroad, no matter that the us chose the palestinians over israel this time.
imho israel had prior knowledge of that attack and let it happen to draw the usa into that war. the usa must have prior knowledge as well but they decided using their own kidnaped citizens as a justification for sending weapons to israel. it looks like a combination of false flag, genocide and crimes against humanity together and reminds me srebrenica and other israeli and u.s. false flags
cocky gang member can’t help but flashing their gang-signs. check out biden and netanjahu showing everyone what they are. the modus operandi of gangs is remarkably similar to freemasons, almost as if one taught the other.
they made it happen probably with some deals between them, certain hamas leaders and iran. satanyahoo and his clique were literally responsible for the rising of hamas for the directly stated goal of keeping an enemy for israel to dehumanize. the reporters and camera crew were all ready on oct 7, if the footage was even filmed on that day. what the hamas people were getting out of it who knows if they were even there.
many israelis demand netanyahu’s resignation, and one israeli politician screamed at a news anchor on rt that they will support ukraine over the actions of hamas and palestinians for giving the israelis their just deserts.
clearly jews can dish it out but cry about it when they suffer consequences of their actions, as have the ukrainians when russia started targeting supply depots and oil refineries in ukrainians territory.
ukrainians have been successfully begging in the west for two years because ukraine is devastated. israel will do the same to ukraine, they are already begging in the usa, if they had not sent an aircraft carrier to the region, israel would already be at the end, just like ukraine.
many israelis demand netanyahu’s resignation, and one israeli politician screamed at a news anchor on rt that they will support ukraine over the actions of hamas and palestinians for giving the israelis their just deserts.
clearly jews can dish it out but cry about it when they suffer consequences of their actions, as have the ukrainians when russia started targeting supply depots and oil refineries in ukrainians territory.
if netanyahu go away and people will vote a new bad goverment like him
many israelis demand netanyahu’s resignation, and one israeli politician screamed at a news anchor on rt that they will support ukraine over the actions of hamas and palestinians for giving the israelis their just deserts.
clearly jews can dish it out but cry about it when they suffer consequences of their actions, as have the russians when ukraine started targeting supply depots and oil refineries in russian territory.
ukraine has not reported all of russia’s drone and missile strikes. social media is a good backdoor to bypass ukrainian and west censorship.
https: //t. me/ les_ lansquenets /213
https: //www. renegadetribune. com/ 10 -way- russias- is- acting- likes- israel/
ukraine, just like the usa or israel, suppresses and obscures the truth about its criminal actions. the fact that the ukrainian regime murdered millions of people since 1917 holds little significance for ukrainians themselves, as ukraine always portrays itself as the victim.
russia has not reported all of ukraine’s drone and missile strikes. social media is a good backdoor to bypass government censorship.
i once saw a video in which a palestinian and an american soldier parachuted out of a plane and fell into a trash can.
i once saw a video of a palestinian taking american aid packages dropped from plane by parachute and throwing it into a garbage bin.
cocky gang member can’t help but flashing their gang-signs. check out biden and netanjahu showing everyone what they are. the modus operandi of gangs is remarkably similar to freemasons, almost as if one taught the other.
cocky gang member can’t help but flashing their gang-signs. check out putin and assad showing everyone what they are. the modus operandi of gangs is remarkably similar to freemasons, almost as if one taught the other.
https: //t. me/ les_ lansquenets /213
https: //www. renegadetribune. com/ 10 -way- russias- is- acting- likes- israel/
ukraine, just like the usa or israel, suppresses and obscures the truth about its criminal actions. the fact that the ukrainian regime murdered millions of people since 1917 holds little significance for ukrainians themselves, as ukraine always portrays itself as the victim.
yes israel knows because new iranian president m. pezeshkian is an israeli agent. he is not iranian but half aserbaichanian & half kurdish. and of course he knew who was invited and would attend the inauguration ceremony. and this information he passed on to the israelis. that’s it. and in the coming month we will see more and more..
.. big hezbollah, hamas, yemeni, syrian & iranians commanders & political figures getting killed. it’s because iran has now a israeli agent as president of iran !!!
https: //t. me/ les_ lansquenets /231
https: //www. renegadetribune. com/ 10 -ways- russia- is- acting- like- israel/
russia, just like the usa or israel, suppresses and obscures the truth about its criminal actions. the fact that the russian regime murdered millions of people since 1917 holds little significance for russians themselves, as russia always portrays itself as the victim.
there is no safe heaven for terrorists.
russia included.
only the usa and ukraine are a safe haven for terrorists
not even there.
yes right there are no safe heaven for terrorist only hell they deserve and soon all zionist one by one will be in hell wait and watch
it was a victim in 1941 when the reich attacked a “peaceful nation” that had previously invaded a half of poland with the stated aim of getting to ussr, and today ukraine is trying to feign victimhood in the context of the war in russia.
it was a victim in 1941 when the reich attacked a “peaceful nation” that had previously invaded a half of poland with the stated aim of getting to germany, and today russia is trying to feign victimhood in the context of the war in ukraine.
decades of the ukrainian persecution of russians, best symbolised by the holocaust (7 russians killed), suddenly lose significance because of the “odessa massacre”! the odessa massacre has become russia’s october 7 – an event whose portrayal got not manipulated and occupied with facts and independent findings solely to justify the ukrainian government’s unlawful actions.
decades of the russian persecution of ukrainians, best symbolised by the holodomor (7.5 million ukrainians killed), suddenly lose significance because of the “odessa massacre”! the odessa massacre has become russia’s october 7 – an event whose portrayal got manipulated and twisted against facts and independent findings solely to justify the government’s unlawful actions.
decades of the ukrainian persecution of russians, best symbolised by the holocaust (7 russians killed), suddenly lose significance because of the “odessa massacre”! the odessa massacre has become russia’s october 7 – an event whose portrayal got not manipulated and occupied with facts and independent findings solely to justify the ukrainian government’s unlawful actions.
https: //noreporter. org/ the- poison- of- the- servants/
also, many ethnic russians are not mixed. while many others are indeed mixed.
the majority of ukrainians are a mixture of chickens and donkeys.
please don’t get me wrong, i am not a racist, but i have dealt with history and ethnic migrations
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we thank you very much for that
resistance is close to winning. that’s why west and israel fight for their lives.
a fatwa issued by iran on netanyahu’s head – dead or alive might change the situation. but i suspect little hitler netanyahu never is outdoors, walking from a house to a car etc. which makes him a hard target. however 10 or 25 million in gold might just tempt the palestinians to make an attempt on his life – he deserves a gruesome end!
israel acting in the world with total disregard. do they really think that they will have any neighbours friendly towards them long term? this; none of this bodes good for the long term future of israel as a country. can “gods chosen ones” not live in peace with anyone? you would have thought they would have drawn a conclusion from their own treatment in ww2 and hpw to treat others; but no. they really are some kind of special. sad for them and their future.
like jesus said they are the children of the devil spawn of satan
it’s a lie ! no one came out better from ww2 than the jews ! wake up man !! they were treated much too soft, especially in ww2. that’s the problem always. hitler arrested rothchild, but then released him, instead of executing this vermin. german kicked the jews out or put them to work in labour camps instead of executing them all on the spot. uk, russia & usa even allowed the jews to rule over them. wake up to the real truth my friend !
erikovich. again i say it to you very clear. the jews were the aggressors in ww2. not germany !! wake up ! you are falling for ignomonius jewish propaganda lies again, which paint history 180 degree wrong !! jews are not victims they are the warmongers, war-criminals, mass-executioniers and prime beasts and vermin of the earth, they are thereal dangerous racists, the chauvinists, the supremacists !!!
happy, happy, joy ,joy.
jews do not deserve peace
90% of jews are part of the problem. 10% oppose it. those are not good odds for the survival of the settler colony. the zionist entity has exposed itself as an illegitimate fasicst cancer in the region, a colony of britain and america to oppress the muslim world. when the muslim world rises up, israel is toast. that day is coming. america’s time in the middle east is coming to an end!
i agree. but it is important that muslim unite !! countries like turkey, iran, pakistan, malaysia, indonesia, iraq, chechnya, afghanistan & all the exiled muslims around the world – they need to get rid of their oppressors and unite and push for the total destruction of judaism – starting with the extermination of the devil’s state of israel !
the jewish hate state has normalized assassination as a political policy.
truth be told hamas best days were behind them when arafat became their titular head. it’s been permeated and controlled by mossad ever since. the only thing that is telling is where he was assassinated which sounds like the “bandar bush” bin sultan saga -which still has him as living 12 years later after he was taken out.
the zionist cancer is very desperate. assassinations, war, degeneracy, faggotry, sanctions, that is all they can do
all they can do is sukkk american goyim dry. without blackmailing america, israel can achieve nothing on its own. they are the ultimate welfare state, living on forced handouts obtained through extortion. jews spend most of their time doing bad deeds, infiltrating, sabotaging, destroying. put it this way, jews do not build civilizations; they destroy and undermine them.
“jews do not build civilizations; they destroy and undermine them” heheheheh well said
it’s not even an insult to them. they are proud of it and even admit this openly. read the book “you gentiles” written by the jew maurice samuel. he states” we are the destroyers, and we will always be the destroyers”. “you can never satify us, as we want the whole world exclusively for us, the jews” !!!
iran’s security leave much to be desired
netanyahu regime cannot defeat hamas. israel diet is assasinations and war. that is not how to run a country
that is how to run a shitty zionist colony. haniyeh was involved in negotiations. israel is that guy who kills the negotiator lol. imagine what beasts we are dealing with. worse than animals. there is a very good reason why jews have been so useless at ruling themselves for 2000 years
jews love life.
you radical islamists love to die.
you are just getting what you are asking for.
:p
lol
jews dont value human life of gentiles or fellow jews. see the talmud, hannibal directive and twisted jewish behaviorisms for proof. you people have some sort of genetic malfunction going on. it is autism on a tribal level
however depressing the situation appears now, but the jews will soon be gone – the neo-nazis in ukraine will soon not exist and the illgotten gains those hews have made brought backbto the state! and hitler netanyahu’s band of rabid jews in palestine will soon be gone the way of the ukraine jews – eradicated. but before that, netanyahu should be drawn and quarted before being put in a kettle and boiled alive, like you boil frogs.
blah blah blah
make like your leader and explode.
:p
lol
hamas is still not defeated. this assassination showed to the world what psycho scum israel is. they killed negotiators.it means they are against peace
they show once again that they can do what they want when they want and nothing can be done about it. they could kill xi or putin or biden tomorow and nothing would happen to them. they killed the iranian president though their azeri ally. and nothing happened. they run the show no doubt about it.
zionists run the amerikan clown show yes. but not civilization. they are beasts. do not over estimate them. they specialize in bad behavior because that’s all they ever do. they became specialists in bad behavior. they are encouraged to act with impunity by the west because of the holohaust. its their excuse to behave like beasts.
muh 6 gorillion…..gave the chews a license to kill , till the end of time. what a great little racket they have carved out for themselves. being auto-victims…haha
sadly i have to tell you, you are wrong. till later 1945 you were right but afterwards jews toook over europe and then asia. and today they indeed “run the show” globally.but that doesnt mean theyll do so forever
struck by what? this is the third article i’ve read that does not describe the damage in any way. by snipers? rockets? drones? planted explosives? seems pretty significant to leave out.
aha! after reading 4 or 5 more articles that didn’t say what struck, finally in tass it said his residence was hit by a “direct missile strike”. thank you tass. that it was a missile rules out everyone but israel.
i hate the way you can’t use caps in this comment section.
you can tell by their hatefulness! i am very sorry for your surroundings, calm down a wening and spare your loved ones!
however, your hate comments are absolutely great.
so israel shot a missile from israel to iran – without any iranian air defence trying to stop it ? very fishy. i smell foul play here.
not much to do at this point except start a world wide culling operation against them jews until they are all dead! and the accumulated wealth them jews have stolen over the last 200 years to be used to de-debt the rest of the world!!!
hit some strikes on dimona, refineries, desalination plants…and israel goes back to 1960s
hamas still not defeated….the targeted killing only killed the chances of a ceasefire that is all. 100% proof israel and america are the most evil country on earth. pakistan stand with falastin! we will give nuclear bomb to turkey and iran when time comes
‘zionist raid’, like it was some sort of heroic act. it was a cowardly act of war against another country. iran needs to adopt a real eye for an eye program. this hitting strictly military targets gets them nowhere, add some political targets. hezbollah, how about a surprise party for bibi? it seems the resistance is not supplying enough, how do the israeli’s say it, deterrence? maybe if smotrich, ben gavir or such got popped…
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