Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday that Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Tehran by a short-range projectile with a warhead of about 7 kg, and vowed severe revenge.
“This terrorist operation was carried out by firing a short-range projectile with a warhead of about 7 kilograms — causing a strong explosion — from outside the accommodation area,” the Guards said in a statement.
It added that Israel was “supported by the United States” in the attack.
The Guards repeated their insistence that Haniyeh would be avenged and that Israel would receive “a severe punishment at the appropriate time, place and manner”.
Israel, which has declined to comment on Haniyeh’s killing, had earlier struck a Hezbollah stronghold in south Beirut.
Meanwhile, at least nine people have been killed in two Israeli military strikes near Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, with among those killed a man named Haithem Bleidi, local media reports state.
The identities of the others were not clear, according to the Wafa news agency, which cited health officials.
The region is still reeling from the assassination of Hamas top chief Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed in Tehran, Iran, earlier this week. Fears of a full-scale conflict in the Middle East have increased, as Iran and Lebanese group Hezbollah have vowed revenge, and Israel promised to continue its war in Gaza and to respond to any retaliatory attacks.
