The funeral procession of assassinated Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, Iran, August 1, 2024Co-published with The Conversation:EA on Australia’s ABC and Times Radio: From 9-11 to the Middle East and Iran in 2024EA on Irish and Indian Media: Israel’s Killings of Hamas Leader Haniyeh and Hezbollah Commander ShukrUPDATES: Hamas Leader Haniyeh Killed in Iran — Is Israel Responsible? It killed the political leader of the Gazan organization Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, only hours after he had met both Iran’s Supreme Leader and its new President Masoud Pezeshkian. After 10 months of Israeli mass killing in Gaza following Hamas’s mass killing and abductions inside Israel, Netanyahu was in deep trouble. More importantly, despite Israeli attempts to eliminate him, Hamas’s military leader Yahya Sinwar is still in Gaza. Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri declared in defiance, “Hamas is a concept and an institution and not persons.

Source: New York Times August 02, 2024 13:09 UTC