Gaza – Ma’an Report – The news of the martyrdom of the great leader Ismail Haniyeh in the Iranian capital Tehran was a shock among the people of Gaza and in the displacement camps in the Gaza Strip, which has been subjected to a war of genocide for ten months, during which more than forty thousand martyrs and thousands of wounded have fallen.
Citizens expressed their deep sadness over the absence of Haniyeh, who represented the moderate leadership in the Hamas movement.
With the continuation of the Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip, no public mourning events were held in the Gaza Strip, while his neighbors in the Shati refugee camp raised a picture of him over the rubble of his house.
Social media sites were filled with pictures of Leader Haniyeh and videos covering the stages of his presence and absence.
The Palestinian factions mourned the leader Haniyeh in separate statements, stressing their condemnation of the crime that targeted him and one of his companions in Tehran.
Haniyeh lost three of his sons
several weeks ago in a raid on the Shati refugee camp, in addition to six of his grandchildren and dozens of his family members.
The assassination of Ismail Haniyeh is considered one of the most severe blows the movement has received since the beginning of the war. Abu al-Abd Haniyeh joined a long list of martyred leaders who preceded him, most notably the head of the movement’s political bureau, Saleh al-Arouri, who was assassinated in Beirut in early January.
Israeli, since the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, Israel has published a list of the movement’s leaders that it has assassinated since the beginning of the war, and the last of those on the assassination list was a picture of Haniyeh.
It is worth noting that Haniyeh was first elected to replace Khaled Meshaal as head of Hamas’s political bureau in May 2017, after the latter announced in 2016 that he would not run for the position again. Haniyeh, who was previously his deputy, remained in the Gaza Strip for only four months after his election, then
left for Doha, Qatar. He has not returned to Gaza since then, fearing that Israel will eliminate him.
Following the assassination, Iran’s top leadership held an emergency meeting at the residence of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Western media reported that the Iranian leadership was in “complete shock” following the assassination.
Now Iran is threatening to respond harshly, and the world fears a regional war.
Yedioth Ahronoth says that the choice to assassinate Haniyeh in Tehran is interesting, because from Israel’s point of view it is killing two birds with one stone: harming Hamas’s top leader, and also sending a message to Tehran that it is not immune. If it continues to host resistance factions, it will pay a heavy price at home.
Source: Maan News Agency