The abrupt assassinations of a shadowy Hezbollah leader and Hamas’s political chief have shaken the region.
Already a subscriber?Two of Israel’s greatest enemies were killed this week within hours as assassinations took the lives of the senior figures in regional militant groups who played key, but very different, roles in the Jewish state’s long conflict with its neighbours.
It has yet to claim Haniyeh’s death, in line with its policy of rarely taking responsibility for assassinations or sabotage in Iran, where the Hamas leader had just travelled for the new president’s inauguration. Both Hamas and, which local news reports suggested involved an air strike at his residence.
While there were others from Hamas involved in the negotiations, “you’ve lost a big voice who was influential and could have a strong say internally within Hamas and was for a deal”.Indeed, Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani warned that Haniyeh’s killing would only endanger the talks. “How can mediation succeed when one party assassinates the negotiator on other side?” he said on X.
Between 2002 and 2005, Israel assassinated five of the men closest to Yassin, and finally Yassin himself. That left Haniyeh to inherit the mantle of its political leadership.Round-faced and smiling, Haniyeh had become increasingly ubiquitous in Yassin’s inner circle during the late 1990s and early 2000s – feeding him, holding the phone to his ear, flipping channels on the television and pushing his wheelchair around Gaza.
That chance came in 2006, when Haniyeh led Hamas to victory over Fatah, its more secular, West Bank-based rival, in US-backed elections in the Palestinian territories. . Sinwar won a 2017 internal vote to run Gaza for Hamas, while Haniyeh was selected a few months later to run the group’s political policies, moving to Doha to nurture its international alliances.
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