CNN —Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh has been killed in the Iranian capital Tehran, according to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps and Hamas on Wednesday.
The new Iranian president was sworn in on Tuesday and Hamas released pictures the same day of Haniyeh meeting Iranian officials in Tehran.
Haniyeh would be the second Hamas senior leader to be killed since the beginning of Israel’s war in Gaza.
As Hamas grew in power, Haniyeh rose through the ranks – being appointed part of a secret “collective leadership” in 2004.
In April, Israeli airstrikes killed three of Haniyeh’s sons and four of his grandchildren, according to Hamas.
Persons:
Ismail Haniyeh, ”, Musa Abu Marzouk, “, Israel, Hezbollah’s, Fu’ad Shukr, Haniyeh, Saleh Al Arouri, Arouri, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, Abdel Aziz Rantisi, Barak Ravid, ” Ravid, –, Jimmy Carter, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa, Wang Kejian, Haniyeh –, Qatar –
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Locations:
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