Ismail Haniyeh’s Death: The Assassination of Hamas’ Leader is a Concern for Gaza Victory?| Watch

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Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Iran's capital after attending the inauguration of the country's new president, Iranian officials and the militant group said early Wednesday. Both blamed Israel for the strike that killed Haniyeh. Does this attack changes Israeli prospect of victory in Gaza? We discussed with Dr. Waiel Awwad Over the matter.

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00:00I think the timing, the place, and the region is already on boiling point.

00:06He's sitting in the office, he's not willing to have end to this war.

00:09And I think that is a sabotage and that will bring the region into a war.

00:13Hamas is an ideology, it's a resistance force.

00:161987 was established by the Israelis themselves.

00:20Hello and welcome to this special broadcast on news that broke out this morning,

00:26this Wednesday morning, that Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas chief, was killed in Iran.

00:33And that too under the presence, under the gaze of the world's spotlight.

00:37Dr. Wael Awad, West Asia strategist, joins us on the broadcast to decode.

00:43Dr. Awad, thank you so much for speaking to One India.

00:46It's always a pleasure to have you on the show, sir.

00:50Thank you.

00:51Dr. Awad, first things first.

00:54A lot of repercussions.

00:55At least, I would say, 12 hours have passed now since the news broke.

01:02How has been the reaction, first of all?

01:04And secondly, where do you see this particular incident leading

01:08the whole Israel-Lebanon-Iran conflict going, sir?

01:13Thank you.

01:14I think the war on Gaza, on Palestine also is on for the last 297 days.

01:22And there is no end to it.

01:23So therefore, the military solution has not been successful for the Israelis

01:29anywhere in the front there.

01:30They only succeeded in destroying the building, the hospital, the school.

01:35The killing of more than 100,000 people, killed and injured, and more than 10,000 is missing.

01:40So therefore, we need to see the situation on the military fold is falling all apart

01:46because Israel also internal pressure on the prime minister of Israel is piling up.

01:52And they wanted a political solution to this crisis so they can get their prisoners out of

01:58the Hamas hands.

02:00But now you're killing the chief negotiator who has been on the table.

02:05So trying to find a solution for you.

02:07You dragged him from Qatar.

02:09You followed him till he went to Iran.

02:11And then you attack him.

02:12I think the timing, the place, and the region is already on boiling pot.

02:19So you have to choose a time where you wanted this war to be more widening because you failed

02:24to drag the United States into a war with Iran.

02:27And when Iran retaliated against the killing of their diplomat in Damascus, you remember.

02:32Now Netanyahu comes back from Washington, D.C.

02:37And with the intention of widening this war because first of all, he wanted Trump to come

02:43back.

02:43He is very much against Kamala Harris.

02:46Therefore, he wanted to make sure that the success of Trump can only be done if the war

02:51is widening and if America gets involved.

02:54All right.

02:55So obviously, the role of the United States is something that not many experts just as

03:00you also have not denied it also.

03:02But Benjamin Netanyahu's own ambitions and to strike it where it hurts the most.

03:10Do you see this as a victory or an achievement for Netanyahu?

03:15Or is this a setback in itself on the bigger picture?

03:18I think it is a setback because he's shooting his own feet.

03:22There's no question that he is going to gain anything by you killing a political leader

03:26or using a kind of a terrorist kind of an attack.

03:29Whether it is on Iran soil, whether it is against the Hezbollah leaders inside Lebanon,

03:36there are terms and conditions.

03:37They have set up unwritten conditions between Israel and the resistance forces in Lebanon

03:43not to attack civilian targets.

03:45So you are choosing a civilian target as much as you're choosing a civilian target in Palestine.

03:50So what kind of achievement do you have?

03:52I think he will survive only as long as the war prolongs and prolongation of the war serve

03:58his objective.

03:58Because even in his government, it's very weak.

04:01Even today, I mean, look at the news in Israel.

04:04When their military officers have been accused of raping prisoners, Palestinian prisoners,

04:10and the whole world is watching how they barge into the building to storm the right-wing

04:14Jewish to release them.

04:16And now they are released from the prison.

04:19These are Israelis among Israelis.

04:20So what do you expect from a prime minister who is not even interested in any peace deal

04:25when he goes to the Congress in the United States and speaks that he wanted to finish

04:29Hamas.

04:30He wanted to destroy the infrastructure of the Palestinians.

04:33He has no intention of ending this war.

04:35So he put an impossible condition in the negotiating table, and he put pressure through the Americans

04:42on Qatar and on Turkey, on the Egyptians, but nothing is happening.

04:47So going and killing unilateral actions, exceptionalism does not solve the problem.

04:52Because the existence of Israel is as much as equal to the existence of Hamas.

04:57Hamas is an ideology.

04:59It's a resistance force.

05:001987 was established by the Israelis themselves, who have given the blessing.

05:04Even Netanyahu himself, there is a case against him.

05:07You know, there's a case against him inside Israel that he made $50 million out of the

05:12$200 million he gave to Hamas from Qatar.

05:15So if these issues are alive in Israel.

05:19So it clearly shows that the gentleman is sitting in the office.

05:23He is not willing to have end to this war.

05:25And I think that is a sabotage, and that will bring the region into a war with unforgettable

05:31because there will be lots of involvement in that region.

05:34There will be effect on the global peace and security.

05:37Absolutely, Dr. Awad.

05:39And this brings me to the final question.

05:42I know the time is of essence on your side.

05:44And this particular attack on Iranian soil, and especially the fact that what has been

05:53happening between Israel and the offshoot of Iranian support, say the Hezbollah in Lebanon,

06:01or for that matter, what happened in Beirut yesterday, they killed a company commander

06:05there, also Israel.

06:06Do you think that this particular incident might have rubbed Iran the wrong way completely

06:12and a retaliation is feared now from Iran to Israel directly?

06:16Well, he wanted the retaliation.

06:18That's why he attacked inside Iran.

06:20I mean, he can do anything against Ismail Hania anywhere.

06:24But why he chose Iran?

06:25Yes.

06:26Choosing of Iran is exactly they wanted the provocation.

06:29And this provocation has been happening now because Iran has already raised the red flag

06:34on the most of whom and most of the mosque in Iran, which is a clear indication that

06:39we have to take a revenge.

06:40And even the supreme leader of Iran have already made it very clear.

06:43You attacked our soil.

06:45You attacked our guest.

06:46He's a political figure.

06:47He was democratically elected in Palestine.

06:50The only prime minister, president elected democratically in 2006, by the way.

06:55And you get rid of him in different soil.

06:57So I think that there is something the whole international community has to understand

07:02this, that this war cannot continue for endless.

07:05There's an end game to each war and war cannot achieve peace.

07:08If you want peace in this region, withdraw from the occupation, occupied territories,

07:13give the Palestinians the right of existence side by side by the Israelis and continuity

07:18of a provocative measure for perpetual wars does not solve the problem, nor we are going

07:23to live in peace as long as it's a war going on.

07:26And I think it's becoming an extensional war, either the Arabs in this region or the Israelis.

07:31Right.

07:32Absolutely.

07:32Dr.

07:32Ward, thank you so much.

07:33You know, no matter Benjamin Netanyahu has returned from the United States, what kind

07:37of message he carries, we don't know as of now, but even U.S. has to fight an election

07:42and it would want to steer clear of any war as of now.

07:46How did Benjamin Netanyahu arrive at this decision to fire at Iran?

07:51Only time will tell.

07:52Meanwhile, Dr.

07:53Ward, thank you so much for speaking to One India.

07:55Thank you so much.

07:56Nice talking to you.

07:57Thank you.

Ismail Haniyeh’s Death: The Assassination of Hamas’ Leader is a Concern for Gaza Victory?| Watch

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