An explosive device hidden in a heavily guarded complex where Ismail Haniyeh was known to stay in Iran was what killed him, according to an investigation.
| Ismail Haniyeh, a top leader of Hamas, was assassinated on Wednesday by an explosive device covertly smuggled into the Tehran guesthouse where he was staying, according to seven Middle Eastern officials, including two Iranians, and a US official.
The explosion shook the building, shattered some windows and caused the partial collapse of an exterior wall, according to the two Iranian officials, members of the Revolutionary Guard briefed on the incident. Such damage was also evident in a photograph of the building shared withMr Haniyeh, who had led Hamas’ political office in Qatar, had stayed at the guesthouse several times when visiting Tehran, according to the Middle Eastern officials.
In the hours after the killing, speculation immediately focused on the possibility Israel had killed Mr Haniyeh with a missile strike, possibly fired from a drone or a plane. Israel decided to carry out the assassination outside Qatar, where Mr Haniyeh and other senior members of Hamas’ political leadership live. The Qatari government has been mediating the negotiations between Israel and Hamas over a ceasefire in Gaza., the Hamas commander who is believed to have been a planner of the October 7 attack on Israel, in an airstrike last month, making him the third Iranian-backed militant leader slain in recent weeks.
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