The assassination of Ismail Haniya in Tehran has raised the tension again in the Middle East. The way he was killed seems to be different from what was initially thought.
The original script called for a missile to hit Ismail Haniya’s room, while the Iranians claimed the strike was from a remote-controlled machine gun used by a Mossad team to kill top Iranian nuclear scientist Mosen Fakhrizadeh in 2020.
However, an article in the Times brings a twist to what we knew until now.
What the “New York Times” reveals
Contrary to what had been known until now, the assassination of Ismail Haniya was not done with a rocket but with an explosive device. How was the murder done?
- The explosive device was secretly placed in the guest house where the Palestinian leader would stay, and in fact in his room.
- According to all indications the bomb was hidden about two months ago in the hostel run and protected by the Revolutionary Guard Corps and part of a large complex in an upscale neighborhood in northern Tehran.
- The device appears to have been remotely activated when Hania’s presence at the hostel was confirmed.
Lament at his funeral
A crowd of mourners attended the funeral of Hamas leader Ismail Haniya in Tehran today, who was killed in the Iranian capital in a strike blamed on Israel, a ceremony marked by calls to avenge his death.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei recited the prayer for the dead in front of the coffins of Ismail Haniya and his bodyguard draped in the Palestinian flag. The leader of the Palestinian Islamist movement will be buried tomorrow, Friday, in Qatar where he lived in exile.
Holding portraits of Haniya and Palestinian flags, thousands of people gathered at Tehran University, according to an AFP correspondent.
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