Hamas names Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar as chief after Haniyeh’s killing

Hamas named its Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar as chief, after Ismail Haniyeh’s assassination on July 31.

Notably, Ismail Haniyeh was killed after his residence was targeted in Tehran, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said in a statement, according to a Reuters report. Haniyeh was in Iran’s capital for the inauguration of President Masoud Pezeshkian.

In a statement, Hamas said Haniyeh was killed in “a treacherous Zionist raid on his residence in Tehran”.

The IRGC said that Haniyeh was killed by a “short-range projectile” with a 7 kg warhead fired from outside his residence in Tehran, Reuters reported. It said in a statement that the attack was carried out by Israel with support from the “criminal” US government.

“Based on investigations and analyses conducted, this terrorist operation was carried out with the firing of a short-range projectile equipped with a warhead weighing approximately 7 kilograms, accompanied by a powerful explosion, from outside the vicinity of the guests’ residence,” the IRGC said in the statement.

The United States, however, denied receiving advance knowledge of the assassination plot.