What remains more explosive is the fact that the director of operation of Hamas political wing, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed on July 31, 2024 a in Tehran in Iran. Called by Hamas as “treacherous Zionist raid,” it happened at Haniyeh’s home. Despite the general information on the activity, there are some reports regarding potential participation of the Israeli forces.
Currently, Haniyeh holds a strategically crucial position since he has been occupying the post of the head of Hamas’s political bureau since 2017. The fatal blow to his leadership entails an increase in the volatility of the regional conflict and its potentially severe consequences escalating the Middle East conflicts. This is the relatively clear manifestation of the official reaction of Hamas to the assassination, branding it as an act of aggression and revealing readiness for reprisal.
Striving takes place against the background of already equally raised tensions in Gaza in recent battles and the associated victims and refugees. The involvement of foreign powers into the operation deepens the geopolitical aspects of the assassination, as it is, which will involve not only the relations between Israel and Iran but within the faction of the Palestinians as well.
The global populations are observing the actions with a high level of attention regarding the likelihood of the rise in hostilities after such an important figure’s assassination. The event describes the vulnerability of the situation in the Middle East and the relations between countries in this area.