Hamas says it arrested suspect in Faqha assassination

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh says his group arrested the man who assassinated one of the terror organization’s leaders in March.

“We announce to our people and nation that we discovered and arrested the direct killer of the martyr Mazen Faqha,” he says, in a press conference outside of Faqha’s home in Gaza. He did not reveal the identity of the alleged killer.

“The assassin of Mazen Faqha received orders directly from the occupation to carry out the crime,’ Haniyeh says.

Faqha, who was in charge of planning attacks against Israelis from the West Bank, was killed in his home in March, and since then Hamas has said Israel was behind the assassination.

Israel denied it was responsible for the attack.

— Dov Lieber