Hamas officially announced the killing of its political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, during a raid on his residence in Tehran, where he participated in the inauguration ceremony of the new Iranian president.
Ismail Haniyeh is a Palestinian politician, head of the political bureau of Hamas, and prime minister of the tenth Palestinian government. He was imprisoned by Israel in 1989 for three years, then exiled to Marj al-Zuhur on the Lebanese-Israeli border with a number of Hamas leaders, where he spent a full year in exile in 1992.
Ismail Haniyeh (62 years old) was elected head of the political bureau of Hamas in 2017, succeeding Khaled Meshaal, but his name and nickname (Abu al-Abd) have been known to the world since 2006, when he assumed the presidency of the government in the Palestinian Authority, after Hamas’s surprise victory in the parliamentary elections.
Haniyeh was born in 1962 in the Shati refugee camp west of Gaza City, after his parents fled their home near what is now the Israeli town of Ashkelon during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
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