This morning, Wednesday, the leader Ismail Haniyeh, head of the political bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement - Hamas, was martyred after his headquarters in the Iranian capital, Tehran, was bombed with a guided missile.

Hamas announced in a statement that Ismail Haniyeh was martyred in a Zionist raid, while the Iranian government announced that it had opened an investigation into the details of the assassination incident.

Leader Ismail Haniyeh was born in the Beach Camp, northwest of the Gaza Strip, to a Palestinian refugee family from the town of Jur Asqalan, in 1962. He studied in UNRWA schools in the camp, and obtained his university degree in Arabic literature in 1987 from the Islamic University in Gaza.

In 1992, Haniyeh worked as Dean of the Islamic University, then as Director of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin’s Office in 1997. He was elected Prime Minister of the Palestinian government in 2005, and in 2017 he was elected Head of the Political Bureau of Hamas.

Ismail Haniyeh joined Hamas immediately after its founding in 1987, and was exiled to Marj al-Zuhur in 1992. He was subjected to an assassination attempt in 2006, becoming a martyr and the most senior figure in Hamas to be assassinated by the occupation since the beginning of the Battle of the Flood of Al-Aqsa.