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Iranian intel minister: Haniyeh assassination was approved by US, carried out by Israel
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Iran’s Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib charges that the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was carried out by Israel and approved by the United States, according to Iran’s Fars News Agency.
Khatib is also quoted as saying that Haniyeh’s assassination proves that the “Al-Aqsa Flood” — the Palestinian terror group’s name for its deadly rampage through southern Israeli communities on October 7 — was a success, without explaining.
He sends condolences to the Palestinian people, the Iranian “resistance” including Hamas, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Haniyeh’s family and “all freedom-loving people worldwide,” according to Fars.
Israel had vowed to kill Haniyeh and other leaders of Hamas after the Gaza-based terror group’s devastating October 7 attack, which saw thousands of terrorists burst across the border by land, air and sea, killing some 1,200 people and seizing 251 hostages, mostly civilians, many amid acts of brutality and sexual assault.
Haniyeh, normally based in Qatar, has been the face of the Palestinian terror group’s international diplomacy as the war raged in Gaza, where three of his sons were killed in an Israeli airstrike. He is the most senior Hamas official killed since the war started.
The Times of Israel Community.