Hamas announced its spokesman in Iran, Mohammad Al-Zahhar, as stating that Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s political bureau head, was assassinated by the Zionists in a raid on his house in Tehran.
Muslim Iran’s president promises Israel to make it regret the ‘cowardly act’, while the country’s Supreme Leader declares that it is Iran’s mission to avenge Haniyeh’s assassination.
As much as the statement uttered by Mrs. Clinton caught a lot of media attention, there was no early reaction from the side of Israel. The Israeli military stated that the operation they were conducting was aimlessly assessing the situation.
Al-Jazeera Arabic TV station reporter Ismail al-Ghoul and his photographer Rami al-Rifee have been killed while the channel targeted the Gaza Strip.
Even before the most recent lethal assault, Israel’s campaign against Gaza is the deadliest war on media and journalists globally.
The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists has given the figure up to July 5, as 108 media workers killed since conflict started, which said is the highest death toll since the group started collecting figures in 1992.
In Israel, people remained optimistic and pleased with what most of the population saw as a great success against Hamas in the war.
“This is intelligence connected to operations that lead to the result—it’s mind-boggling,” said Amos Gilad, a former senior defense official, on Channel 12. “About the performance, one can state it was brilliant whoever was accomplishing it.”
Two amateurish provincial junior ministers, who are not involved in making security decisions, boasted on social media about the operation, which has not been officially attributed to Israel.
Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli uploaded V to X, a link to a video of Haniyeh speaking at an event in which people chanted “Death to Israel.” Chikli wrote: “If it is wise to totter on the edge of a position and call for it, then beware what you wish for.
Posts with images of people giving out sweets were made, and at a supermarket in Jerusalem, there was a table of biscuits placed for the clients to take and eat under a slogan that said, ‘The people of Israel live.’.
