Who was Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas leader killed in an attack in Iran?

This Wednesday it was confirmed that the political leader of Hamas , Ismail Haniyeh was killed in an attack in Iran . More precisely in Tehran.

From the activist group They accused the origin of the offensive of being Israeli. and that the one also called “Abu Al-Abd” was in a building for war veterans.

Haniyeh was 62 and arrived in the Iranian capital on Tuesday to attend the inauguration of President Masoud Pezeshkian. who won the elections in early July.

His death occurred almost a year after Hamas’ military incursion into Israel last October 7th which was responded to with constant attacks.

It should be recalled that after this episode, the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to eliminate the organization’s top brass .

The Assassination of Haniyeh happened a few hours after Israel would affirm who killed Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut capital of Lebanon.

In his case, He had been accused of being responsible for a rocket attack on the the golan heights which resulted in the loss of at least 12 children and adolescents.

These situations have further increased tensions in Middle East .

Ismail Haniyeh was a political leader, so Doubts arise as to how the absence of his figure will affect conversations for a possible ceasefire in Gaza.

He was born in one of the Palestinian refugee camps in 1962. .

Specific, in Al Shati in Gaza within a family that fled Ashkelon when the State of Israel was created in 1948.

He began his activism in the student branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. at the Islamic University of Gaza and was a member of the student union between 1983 and 1984, according to him Infobae .

Three years later, he joined Hamas. a movement observed since the beginning of the First Intifada (1987-1993).

During those years, In 1989 he was imprisoned by Israel and spent three years in detention, until he went into exile with other Hamas members in Marj al-Zuhur (Lebanon) in 1992. according to data collected by the BBC .

Afterwards He returned to Gaza and in 1997 was appointed head of the office of Hamas’ Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. .

Both survived an Israeli airstrike in 2003. but a year later, the latter was shot down.

In 2006, Haniyeh was appointed Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), but was dismissed from office a year later. by the president of the body that governs the Palestinian territories.

That happened after Hamas’ armed wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, took control of Gaza through an investigation.

However, He remained the de facto leader of the Gaza Strip until 2014. .

On May 6, 2017, Haniyeh was elected head of Hamas’s Political Bureau. by the Shura Council of the Islamic Resistance Movement. His predecessor was Khaled Mishal.

This position is the highest in the group structure .

From the Foreign Ministry of Iran, the country where the attack took place, they said that Haniyeh’s ‘martyrdom’ will ‘strengthen the deep and indissoluble bond between Tehran, Palestine and the resistance’ .

For his part, Hamas political movement member Musa Abu Marzuk described the episode as a “cowardly act” which “will not go unanswered” .

Another senior official of the organization, Sami Abu Zuhri, stressed that the group “will continue on its way” .

“This assassination by the Israeli occupation of brother Haniyeh This is a serious escalation that aims to break the will of Hamas and that of our people. ” he stressed to the agency Reuters .

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallantsaid they were not seeking war, but were “preparing for all possibilities.” according to statements saved by cnn .

Although his forces claimed responsibility for the Beirut attack, until Wednesday morning They neither confirmed nor denied their participation in the attack on Haniyeh. .