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Hamas leaders assassinated by Israel in the past
31 July 2024 08:34 BST
Israel has assassinated several Hamas leaders over the last 25 years:
- January 1996: Israel assassinated Hamas military leader Yahya Ayyash in Gaza’s Beit Lahiya
- March 2004: Hamas spiritual leader and founder Sheikh Ahmed Yasin was killed by an Israeli strike in Gaza
- April 2004: Yasin’s successor and Hamas co-founder Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi was killed by Israeli helicopter missile strike in Gaza City
- January 2024: Senior Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri was killed in an Israeli drone strike in Beirut
- July 2024: Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s political chief, assassinated in Iran’s capital, Tehran