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00:00Top Hamas political leader who left the Palestinian Gaza Strip since 2019 to exile in Qatar, Ismail
00:05Haniyeh has been confirmed killed through urban projectile at night of Tuesday early
00:08morning at a military residential building in Tehran, the capital of Iran ahead of the
00:11presidential inauguration he visited the country to attend.
00:15The Hamas's political chief, Ismail Haniyeh was killed according to a statement from the
00:18group that governs Gaza, which blamed Israel for his death.
00:22Haniyeh was also said to have been killed in his home in Tehran after participating
00:25in the inauguration of the new Iranian president, according to Hamas.
00:29The death of Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas political leader, in Iran will strengthen the deep and
00:33unbreakable bond between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the beloved Palestine and the
00:37resistance, an Iranian state spokesperson said.
00:40The pure blood of Mataya Haniyeh will never be wasted, foreign ministry spokesperson Nasser
00:43Kanani said, according to Iranian state media, adding that Iranian authorities are currently
00:48investigating the assassination as no group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
00:52However, Kanani praised Haniyeh for spending his life in the honorable struggle against
00:56the usurping Zionist regime and for seeking the liberation of the oppressed Palestinian
01:01nation.
01:02Iran's Revolutionary Guards, in its statement of confirmation, said Hamas leader Ismail
01:06Haniyeh and one of his bodyguards were assassinated in the capital, Tehran.
01:11It was gathered that Haniyeh and one of his bodyguards were killed after the building
01:14where they were staying was struck, according to the statement issued by the group governing
01:17Gaza.
01:18The group said that Haniyeh was in Tehran to attend the inauguration ceremony of Iran's
01:22president Massoud Pesachian on Tuesday.
01:24The Islamic resistance movement Hamas mourns to our great Palestinian people, to the Arab
01:28and Islamic nation, and to all the free people of the world, brother, leader, Mataya, Mujahid
01:34Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the movement, who was killed in a treacherous Zionist raid
01:38on his residence in Tehran, Hamas said on Wednesday early morning.
01:42Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, IRGC, also announced Haniyeh's death.
01:46Early this morning, the residence of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran was struck, resulting in
01:51his and one of his bodyguards Mataya died.
01:53The cause is under investigation and will be announced soon, the IRGC said in a statement,
01:57adding that the attack was under investigation.
02:00According to media reports, the Hamas leader was killed when an airborne guided projectile
02:05hit a special residence for military veterans in the north of Tehran, at which he was staying,
02:09at about 2 a.m. 2230 Greenwich Mean Time on Tuesday, according to Al Jazeera.
02:14Israel has not issued any statement concerning the attack with Al Jazeera citing media outlets
02:18in Israel reporting that the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had ordered cabinet
02:22ministers not to comment.
02:23Far-right heritage minister Amishai Eliyahu, however, made a statement about the Hamas
02:28leader's death on social media platform X.
02:31The killing made the world a little better, he wrote in Hebrew as translated and reported
02:35by Al Jazeera.
02:36It would be recalled that Israel launched a retaliatory war on Gaza, vowed to eliminate
02:41Hamas and kill its leaders after the group attacked Israel on October 7, killing 1,200
02:45people and taking more than 200 others captive.
02:48The report had indicated that about 39,400 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's
02:52war, with 90,996 injured.
02:56Palestinians across Gaza and the West Bank also view Ismail Haniyeh as a moderate leader
03:00who is much more pragmatic compared to other leaders who held the military side of the
03:03movement, Al Jazeera reported.
03:05Adding, he is very popular.
03:07Here, Gaza, he grew up in a refugee camp.
03:10He represents the vast majority of the people who are the descendants of the refugee families
03:13who were displaced from the Palestinian territories in 1948.
03:17There are concerns by many that Haniyeh's killing could lead to a further escalation
03:21of the conflict in the Middle East.
03:22Tensions were already high after Israel said it targeted a senior Hezbollah commander in
03:26a precision strike on Beirut on Tuesday.
03:29This is a huge escalation.
03:31What happened yesterday in Lebanon?
03:33What's happening today in Tehran?
03:34It's an escalation by Israel, and that's going to have significant ramifications, Sami Al-Erian,
03:40the director of the Center for Islam and Global Affairs at Istanbul Zayn University, told Al
03:44Jazeera.
03:45Satwa Ahmedu, Brengen Youth News in a more digital way.