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Hamas Chief Ismail Haniyeh killed in Israeli airstrike in Tehran

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Tehran, Iran, the Palestinian militant group Hamas announced on Wednesday. The attack also claimed the life of one of his bodyguards. The incident was confirmed by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in a statement.

“With condolences to the heroic nation of Palestine and the Islamic nation and the combatants of the Resistance Front and the noble nation of Iran, this morning [Wednesday] the residence of Mr. Dr. Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the political office of the Islamic Resistance of Hamas, was hit in Tehran, and following this incident, he and one of his bodyguards were martyred,” the IRGC statement read.

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