Hamas's top political leader killed in Iran, group says

Hamas's top political leader Ismail Haniyeh has been killed in Iran, the group has confirmed.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Haniyeh and one of his bodyguards were assassinated in the capital Tehran, Iranian state media reported.

In a statement Hamas said he was killed in "a treacherous Zionist raid on his residence in Tehran".

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the death, but Israel had vowed to kill Haniyeh and other leaders of Hamas after the group attacked Israel on 7 October, killing 1,200 people and taking 250 others hostage.

More than 39,360 Palestinians have since been killed and more than 90,900 injured since the war began, according to the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza, which does not differentiate between civilians and combatants.

Earlier this year an Israeli airstrike killed three of Haniyeh's sons in an attack on high-profile targets in Gaza, with the Israeli military saying two were Hamas military operatives and the third was a cell commander.

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