Hamas Chief Ismail Haniyeh Killed In Iran

Hamas Chief Ismail Haniyeh Killed In Iran

File photo - Hamas leader Ismail Haniyehh celebrates his party's electoral victory in Gaza on January 29, 2006. Haniyeh is one of the Hamas figures that could be named Palestinian Prime Minister. Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh said Saturday the Palestinian group was on the "verge of a great victory" after it launched a surprise attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. "We are on the verge of a great victory and a clear conquest on the Gaza front," Haniyeh said in a speech broadcast on Hamas-run Al-Aqsa television. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Iran's Tehran, the Palestinian militant group Hamas said in a statement on Wednesday. In a statement, the Islamist faction mourned the death of Haniyeh, who it said was killed in "a treacherous Zionist raid on his residence in Tehran". Photo by Balkis Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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