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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/01/world/middleeast/how-hamas-leader-haniyeh-killed-iran-bomb.html
Bomb Smuggled into Tehran Guesthouse Two Months Ago Killed Hamas Leader
(New York Times) Ronen Bergman - Ismail Haniyeh, a top leader of Hamas, was killed on Wednesday by an explosive device smuggled into the Tehran guesthouse run by the Revolutionary Guards where he was staying, according to Middle Eastern and American officials. The bomb had been hidden two months ago and was detonated remotely, once it was confirmed that Haniyeh was inside his room. Haniyeh had stayed at the guesthouse several times when visiting Tehran. The leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Ziyad al-Nakhalah, was staying next door, but his room was not badly damaged. David Barnea, the head of Israel's Mossad foreign intelligence service, said in January that his service was "obliged" to hunt down the leaders of Hamas, the group behind the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel. "It will take time, as it took after the massacre in Munich [at the 1972 Olympics], but our hands will catch them wherever they are."