Haniyeh Assassination to Bolster Resistance Fighters’ Resolve on Path of Jihad: Hezbollah
The Lebanese resistance movement in a message on Wednesday described Haniyeh as one of the great contemporary leaders of resistance who courageously stood against the US domination project and the Zionist occupation.
“We share with our brothers in the Hamas movement the sadness for the loss of this great leader and the anger against the enemy,” the message read.
“We are proud that our movements’ leaders are leading the way in the endeavor (to fight the enemy) until martyrdom.”
Haniyeh has been assassinated in an attack in Tehran in what Hamas described as a "Zionist raid."
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced on Wednesday morning that Haniyeh and one of his bodyguards were killed when their residence was struck in Tehran.
The statement indicated that the attack is under investigation, with results expected to be announced later in the day.
Haniyeh was in Tehran to attend the inauguration ceremony of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian.
Head of Iraq’s National Wisdom Movement Ammar al-Hakim also issued a message of condolences, saying the Zionist regime’s criminal assassination of Haniyeh will not dissuade the Palestinian nation from continuing to move on the path of victory.
He condemned the Israel crime and called on the international community to take measures against the Tel Aviv regime.
The Islamic Jihad, Hamas’s fellow Gaza-headquartered resistance movement, denounced the “sinful assassination” that had targeted “a symbol of the resistance.”
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The movement, however, asserted that the atrocity would not deter the Palestinian nation from staying on the path of resistance and keeping up their efforts to put an end to the regime’s crimes that had “exceeded all limits.”
“We affirm our cohesion with our brothers in the Hamas movement in resisting the usurping entity.”
Mohammad al-Hindi, the Islamic Jihad’s deputy secretary general, also described Haniyeh’s assassination as a “great loss” for the Palestinian nation, but insisted that the Israeli enemy was “completely mistaken” if it thought it could defeat the resistance by taking out its leaders.
Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, echoed the condemnations, describing the assassinations as a “cowardly action” and a “dangerous development.”
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Various Palestinian groups have called for sweeping protests and a general strike across the occupied Palestinian territories in condemnation of the assassination.
The foreign ministries of Qatar and Turkey, the acting prime minister of Lebanon, and the deputy foreign minister of Russia have also condemned the assassination of the senior resistance figure in Tehran.
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