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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attends the World Economic Forum in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on April 28Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has condemned the killing of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh, according to the WAFA news agency.
“We strongly denounce and condemn the assassination of the head of the Political Bureau, the national leader, Ismail Haniyeh. We consider it a cowardly act, this pushes us to remain more steadfast in the face of the occupation, and the necessity of achieving the unity of the Palestinian forces and factions,” heThe killing of Hamas’ political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, “will not pass in vain,” said Musa Abu Marzouk, a member of the group’s political bureau.
While Haniyeh is not militarily significant, he is in charge of the group’s international relations and is the key interlocutor with Egyptian and Qatari mediators on the hostage and ceasefire deal in Gaza, Ravid said.The Israeli government sees Haniyeh as one of those responsible for Hamas’ October 7 attack, according to Ravid, and Israeli authorities have vowed to hunt down those responsible for the attack 10 months ago that has now embroiled the Middle East in conflict.
in the group, after first joining Hamas in the late 1980s and climbing the ranks in the following decades.In this 2014 file photo, senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh waves to the crowd during a rally ahead of the 27th anniversary of Hamas' founding, in Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip.Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed in Tehran, according to Hamas and Iranian media, was a longtime political leader of the militant group.
By 2017 he had become chief of the group — and was named a “specially designated global terrorist” by the United States soon after., and met with other world leaders including the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, and Chinese diplomat Wang Kejian earlier this year.
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