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(Original title: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was attacked and killed in the Iranian capital)

Ismail Haniyeh was attacked and killed

CCTV reporters learned on July 31 local time that the Public Relations Department of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran announced in a statement that day:Ismail Haniyeh, leader of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), and a bodyguard were killed in an attack in Tehran, the capital of Iran.

The statement said the cause of the incident is under investigation and the results will be announced later.

Haniyeh was born in a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip in 1963. He was the leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip. After Hamas won the legislative council election in 2006, Haniyeh became prime minister. In January 2007, after a conflict between Hamas and the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah) led by President Abbas, Abbas announced the removal of Haniyeh from the post of prime minister. In June 2007, Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip from Fatah by force.

Earlier reports:

Hamas leader Haniyeh speaks out after 3 sons and 4 grandchildren were killed

According to Xinhua News Agency in Beijing on April 11, a total of seven people, including the son and grandchildren of Ismail Haniyeh, Chairman of the Political Bureau of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), died in an Israeli air strike in the northern Gaza Strip on the 10th.

According to Hamas, Haniyeh's sons Hazem, Amir and Mohammed, as well as three granddaughters and one grandson were killed in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City. The Israeli army hit the car they were riding in. Haniyeh said in an interview with Qatar's Al Jazeera that Israel's killing of many of his relatives would not make Hamas make concessions in the ceasefire negotiations in Gaza.

Haniyeh speaks to reporters in Doha, Qatar

In a telephone interview broadcast on a television network, Haniyeh said his position on ceasefire negotiations with Israel would not change. "The blood of my sons is not more precious (than the blood of other Palestinians)," he said, adding that the massacre would not change Hamas' position on ceasefire and hostage release negotiations in the Gaza Strip.

According to International Online, Israel's Public Broadcasting Corporation quoted anonymous Israeli government officials as saying that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Galant were not aware of the airstrike in advance, and that the airstrike could have a negative impact on the ongoing Gaza ceasefire negotiations.

3 sons attacked while visiting family in Gaza refugee camp

He has 13 children and has lost nearly 60 relatives.

The Israel Defense Forces and the Israeli National Security Agency (Shin Bet) issued a joint statement on the evening of the 10th, confirming that the Israeli airstrike killed Haniyeh's three sons, but did not confirm that Haniyeh's four grandchildren died in the airstrike. The Israeli side claimed that Haniyeh's three sons were Hamas militants.

According to Hamas sources, Haniyeh's three sons were visiting their family in the Shati refugee camp in the Gaza Strip when their vehicle was bombed by an airstrike.

It was reported that Haniyeh learned the news while visiting the injured in the hospital. He remained calm and said "have mercy on them" several times as he walked out of the room.

Haniyeh said in a statement on Hamas' official social media account that while he, as a father, went into exile, his sons chose to stay in the Gaza Strip. He called his three sons who died in the Israeli bombing "martyrs."

In a statement, Haniyeh linked his personal grief to the "universal" suffering experienced by all Gaza people. "We and the residents of the Gaza Strip have paid a heavy price for the blood of our children, and I am one of them," he said, adding that "the blood of my son is no more precious" than the blood of about 33,000 Palestinians who have lost their lives since the start of the current round of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in October last year.

Haniyeh has 13 children in total. Three more of his sons died in this incident, bringing the number of relatives he has lost in the conflict to nearly 60. On April 1, Israeli police arrested Haniyeh's sister in a southern Israeli town.

Chania:

This attack will not change Hamas's position

Hamas representative in Lebanon Ahmed Abdul Hadi accused Israel of putting pressure on Hamas through assassinations of civilians and massacres in an attempt to meet its demands in the negotiations. He said: "Israel puts pressure on the leadership of the resistance movement through assassinations of civilians and massacres without achieving any results, thinking that this will meet its demands in the negotiations."

Bassan Naim, a member of the Hamas Political Bureau, directly pointed out that Israel's killing of Haniyeh's descendants was an extreme measure taken by Netanyahu to undermine the ceasefire negotiations. He said that the Israeli military's killing of the descendants of Hamas leader Haniyeh showed that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu was desperate to "undermine" the ongoing ceasefire negotiations.

Haniyeh's three sons died

Haniyeh also stressed that the attack would not change Hamas's position on the ceasefire and hostage release negotiations in the Gaza Strip. "What the enemy cannot obtain through killing, destruction and extermination, it will not obtain through negotiations," he said in a statement.

"We are not going to compromise on our demands," Haniyeh said. "If they think that targeting my son at a critical moment in the negotiations will cause Hamas to change its position, they are delusional."

Haniyeh has been active on the international stage since he became the leader of the Hamas Political Bureau in 2017. He travels between Turkey and Doha, the capital of Qatar, and has become the most prominent negotiator in the latest round of ceasefire negotiations in the Gaza Strip. He once accused Israel of being uncooperative in the negotiations, saying that "the responsibility for the lack of progress in the ceasefire negotiations in the Gaza Strip lies with Israel."

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reportedly expressed his condolences to Haniyeh over the phone, telling him that "Israel will certainly be held accountable for its crimes against humanity".

Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Palestinian President and Chairman of the Palestinian National Liberation Organization (Fatah) Mahmoud Abbas, Yemen's Houthi armed forces and Lebanon's Hezbollah also expressed condolences to Haniyeh.

Israeli Officials:

The Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense were not informed in advance

Air strikes could jeopardize ceasefire talks

An Israeli official revealed that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Galant were not informed of the attack in advance and neither of them was aware of it. The airstrike could jeopardize the ongoing Gaza ceasefire negotiations.

According to local media reports, the attack on Haniyeh's three sons was approved by a colonel in the IDF's Southern Command and was not discussed in advance in Israel's war cabinet.

Before the Israeli airstrike on Haniyeh's family, Hamas and Israel were negotiating a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of detainees through the mediation of Qatar and Egypt. Hamas said on the 9th that Israel's latest proposal did not meet "any of Hamas's demands", but Hamas would study it.

Haniyeh also made it clear in a previous televised speech that Hamas was not prepared to give in on any of its previous conditions, declaring: "We are committed to achieving our demands: a permanent ceasefire, a complete withdrawal of the enemy from the Gaza Strip, the return of all displaced persons to their homes, allowing all necessary assistance to the people of Gaza, the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, the lifting of the blockade of Gaza, and an honorable prisoner exchange agreement."