Asked about Haniyeh killing, IDF spokesman says no other Israeli aerial strike apart from Beirut hit that night

Asked about the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari says the military did not carry out any other airstrike overnight between Tuesday and Wednesday, aside from the assassination of Hezbollah military chief Fuad Shukr in Beirut.

“We struck on Tuesday night in Lebanon and killed Fuad Shukr in an accurate aerial strike. I want to emphasize, there was no other aerial strike, not a missile and not an Israeli drone, in the entire Middle East that night, and I won’t comment further,” he says.

Earlier today, The New York Times reported that the explosion that killed Haniyeh and his bodyguard early yesterday morning was set off by a sophisticated, remote-controlled bomb smuggled about two months ago into the Hamas leader’s room at the Tehran guesthouse where he was staying.

Haniyeh was in Tehran for the swearing-in of Iran’s newly elected president Masoud Pezeshkian. Jerusalem has neither confirmed nor denied the assassination, but Iran has vowed to exact revenge on Israel.

Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.