CAIRO– Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas, was assassinated in Tehran, Iran, according to a statement issued by the Palestinian militant group Hamas on Wednesday.
In a statement, the Islamist faction lamented the loss of Haniyeh, who it said was killed in “a treacherous Zionist raid on his residence in Tehran“.
Haniyeh was born in the al-Shati refugee camp in Egypt’s controlled Gaza Strip in 1962. He attended the Islamic University of Gaza and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Arabic literature in 1987. He originally became associated with Hamas while studying. In 1997, he was appointed to lead a Hamas office, and he later rose through the organization’s ranks.
He chaired the Hamas Political Bureau. He had lived in Qatar since 2023, till his death.
