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We are beginning to understand how Ismail Haniyeh was killed. Initial reports suggest that he and his bodyguards died when a rocket hit the house where he was staying in Tehran, writes the BBC.
All eyes will inevitably fall on Israel, which vowed to hunt down and punish all Hamas leaders after the brutal October 7 attacks that killed nearly 1,200 Israelis and foreigners.
Israel does not usually comment on its operations abroad, but this attack may have followed the same pattern as an Israeli operation that targeted Iranian air defenses around its Natanz nuclear facility on April 19.
Israeli jets are believed to have fired missiles from outside Iranian airspace.
But as details of the attack slowly emerge, its political ramifications are also coming into focus.
Most obvious is the potential damage to fragile efforts to negotiate a ceasefire in Gaza.
Ismail Haniyeh may not have been in charge of day-to-day events on the ground in Gaza – that is the domain of military commander Yahya Sinwar – but as Hamas leader in exile he was a critical interlocutor in the Qatari-brokered negotiations. USA and Egypt.
US officials had recently suggested that ceasefire negotiations could soon succeed, although a meeting in Rome last weekend failed to produce a breakthrough.
But it is extremely difficult to see how any progress can be made in the immediate aftermath of the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh.
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