Ismail Haniyeh, the chairman of Hamas’s political bureau, was killed while visiting Iran on Wednesday, the Palestinian militant group announced in a statement.
Haniyeh was in Tehran to attend the inauguration of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, who won a general election in July after former President Ebrahim Raisi was killed in a helicopter crash earlier this year.
The Islamist group said Haniyeh was killed in a “treacherous Zionist raid on his residence in Tehran,” but few details about his death have been released.
