Ismail Haniyeh, who has been killed in the Iranian capital of Tehran aged 61, was the chief of the political bureau of the Palestinian organisation Hamas. He had just attended the inauguration of Iran’s newly elected president when the state guesthouse he was staying in was hit by an explosion.
Though Israel did not claim the attack, it was widely believed to have been responsible. Jerusalem blamed Haniyeh for the terror attack led by the Islamist group on 7 October last year, in which around 1,200 people were killed, and another 250 taken as hostages.
