Death came hours after Israel said it killed a top Hezbollah commander in Beirut, fuelling fears of regional conflict
Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in 2017. The leader of the Palestinian militant group was killed in Iran, according to reports.Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in 2017. The leader of the Palestinian militant group was killed in Iran, according to reports.in the early hours of Wednesday morning, only hours after Israel said it had killed a top Hezbollah commander in Beirut.and Hezbollah, but also raise the stakes for Iran, which backs both groups and vowed revenge.
The retired general Amos Yadlin, a former head of Israel’s Military Intelligence Directorate, described the attacks on Wednesday night as “two quality operations of Israel defence forces against two top terrorists, one in Beirut and one in Tehran”. Hamas has survived past assassinations of its top leaders, including Haniyeh’s mentor Ahmed Yassin in 2004, and Haniyeh did not command operations on the ground in Gaza after leaving for exile in 2019.
But negotiations are likely to be frozen after the attacks of recent days, and particularly after the killing of Haniyeh, who played a key role in talks from his Doha base. Qatar described the attack as a “dangerous escalation” that put ceasefire talks in jeopardy. “That’s what we’re afraid of,” Abdallah Bou Habib told the Guardian. “We did not expect to be hit in Beirut. We thought these were red lines that the Israelis would respect.”
After an airstrike killed three of his sons and four grandchildren in April he insisted in an interview with Al Jazeera that his personal loss would not prompt Hamas to shift its position in negotiations.
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