Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas, was the victim of the second high-profile killing in a few hours that Israel has been blamed for. The first occurred after Israel claimed to have assassinated Hezbollah’s highest-ranking military official.
The Palestinian terrorist group stated on Wednesday that Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of Hamas, had been killed in Tehran, the capital of Iran. The attack was described as a “severe escalation”.
Haniyeh’s passing was also verified by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), just hours after he attended Masoud Pezeshkian’s inauguration as the country’s new president.
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No Response From Israeli Officials
Israeli officials did not immediately respond to news outlets to the Tehran hit, even though Israel had pledged to kill Haniyeh and other Hamas leaders following the militant group’s October 7 raid on Israel, which resulted in 1,200 deaths and the kidnapping of 251.
Yet, Hamas asserts that an Israeli airstrike was the reason behind Haniyeh’s demise. Iranian media later confirmed that Haniyeh had died in an airstrike. The semi-official Iranian news outlet Fars said that Haniyeh had been “martyred by an air-launched missile” in north Tehran.
Haniyeh’s killing is the second high-profile assassination connected to Israel after Israel claimed to have killed Fu’ad Shukr, the most senior military official in Hezbollah backed by Iran, in a drone strike in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, within hours of each other. Hezbollah, which has not confirmed Shikr’s death, claims he “was present” at the moment of the hit.
Israeli soldiers and its Mossad spy agency are said to have carried out several assassinations and intelligence operations inside Iran in the past as part of this secret war.
Israel’s AI-Driven Robotic Machine Gun
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, an Iranian nuclear scientist, was killed in a roadside attack outside of Tehran in November 2020. Western and Israeli intelligence considered Fakhrizadeh to be the father of Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons program.
Iran labeled Fakhrizadeh’s murder a “complex operation” of a novel kind and placed the blame on Israel and an opposition group that was living abroad. The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council stated that “no one was present at the scene and the operation was very complex, using electronic equipment” in an interview with state television.
Using a robotic machine gun installed on a truck parked by the side of the road, Fakhrizadeh was slain while operating his vehicle. The operation was purportedly carried out by the human sniper operating the machine gun from a place almost 1,500 miles distant.
During the operation, artificial intelligence (AI) was also used for the first time to assassinate foreign land.
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