World leaders have been trying to prevent a surge of violence in the region in recent weeks, but now all previous calculations will be discarded as Hezbollah and Iran vow to respond to the deaths of two key figures.
The deaths of two senior leaders of Iran-backed groups will broaden and deepen the conflict in the Middle East and increase the risks of all-out war. World leaders and international diplomats have been working the phones in recent weeks, trying to prevent a surge in violence - but I doubt they could have contemplated events over the past 24 hours.
The Israelis have chosen a different, yet equally provocative way to acknowledge his death - with the government press office posting and then deleting an image of Haniyah on its Facebook page with the word 'eliminated' stamped across his forehead. Israel has not made a formal statement claiming responsibility for the death of the Hamas leader, but this image just about does the job.
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