Hamas announced on Wednesday that the head of the movement’s political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, had been assassinated in an Israeli raid on his residence in the Iranian capital, Tehran.
Hamas said in a statement that the movement’s leader ‘was killed in a treacherous Zionist raid on his residence in Tehran’.

In another statement, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard said: ‘We are investigating the dimensions of the incident of Haniyeh’s martyrdom in Tehran’ and would announce the results of the investigation later.
The Iranian news agency reported that Ismail Haniyeh and one of his bodyguards were martyred after their residence in Tehran was attacked.
Iran’s Tasnim news agency also reported that an investigation was underway into the assassination of the head of Hamas’ political bureau and that the results would be announced soon.
Haniyeh was in Tehran to attend the inauguration ceremony of Iranian President Masoud Bazeshkian.