Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Tehran where he had been attending the president’s inauguration. Hamas’s political chief Ismail Haniyeh has been assassinated in Iran’s capital, Tehran, according to a statement from the group that runs the besieged and bombarded Gaza Strip, which blamed Israel for his killing. Haniyeh and one …

The news headlines that emerged after the October 7 attack — when Hamas and a coalition of other militant groups launched a coordinated armed incursion into Israel, killing 1,200 people and kidnapping hundreds — described it as a “surprise” attack.

Latest Developments The strike in Tehran on July 31 that killed Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s most senior political leader, brings to four the number of Hamas’s top leaders eliminated since the October 7 atrocities in southern Israel. Prior to the killing of Haniyeh — who was in Tehran for the inauguration …