“The only thing that came into my mind is that Israel has killed our leader,” said Khaled Qaddoumi, Hamas’s representative in Iran, who was sleeping in an apartment two floors below the group’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh when an explosion rocked the building. “Whether it was with the American tools, whether it was through the Americans, what came into my mind directly is that the Israeli enemy has killed our leader.”
Today, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps directly accused Israel of assassinating Haniyeh in Tehran early Wednesday morning by firing a “short-range projectile with a warhead weighing about 7 kilograms” from outside the apartment complex. While Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) did not offer any forensic evidence to back its allegations, the statement served as a direct challenge to an article published in the New York Times Thursday asserting that Haniyeh was killed by a bomb covertly planted in the residence months ago. ….more
