Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh is killed in Iran by an alleged Israeli strike

Hamas’s top political leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in an airstrike in Tehran, Hamas early Wednesday morning. Haniyeh was killed at his residence in the Iranian capital after he attended a swearing-in ceremony of Iran’s new president. Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, vowed revenge against Israel over killing “a dear guest,” saying the killing will have major repercussions on the entire region. Israel has not commented on the strike, but it has vowed revenge over the group’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel that killed 1,200 people. With files from the Canadian Press
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