'Haniyeh's assassination to intensify efforts for Palestinian cause'

from Daily Sabah

Israel's assassination of Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh will not deter the fight for the Palestinian cause, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) said Wednesday.

Foreign Ministers of member states of OIC gathered for an open-ended extraordinary meeting to discuss "the continued crimes of the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people" following the killing of Haniyeh.

"The assassination of Sheikh Ismail Haniyeh will not quell the Palestinian cause, rather it amplifies it underscoring the urgency for justice and human rights for the Palestinian people," Gambia's Foreign Minister Mamadou Tangara said kicking off the meeting.

"Let it be known that such actions will not deter but rather strengthen the resolve of those who seek peace and justice," he told his counterparts gathered in the Saudi coastal city of Jeddah...

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What message is Hamas sending by naming Yahya Sinwar as its leader?

(Here is the message being sent by Hamas: If you are going to kill our more peaceful leaders while looking for a resolution to this conflict, we will replace them with some... less peaceful ones. 

In other words: We don't negotiate with terrorists)

from TRT News

Jeremy Scahill on New Head of Hamas, Questions About Haniyeh Assassination & Iran Retaliation

from Democracy NOW!

Thousands to rally in Istanbul heeding Haniyeh’s ‘last call’ for Gaza

from Daily Sabah

Tens of thousands of pro-Palestine protestors are preparing to rally in Istanbul on Aug. 3, the day the late Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh called for to be declared “International Gaza Day,” according to a report in the Turkish newspaper Sabah.

Three days before Israel assassinated him during a visit to the Iranian capital of Tehran, Haniyeh called on all Arab, Muslim and world nations to the streets in solidarity with the people of Gaza under Israeli bombardment and Palestinian captives in Israeli prisons.

Following Haniyeh’s shocking killing, pro-Palestinian activists are taking his call as his “final will” and organizing protests around the world, Sabah wrote.

The Türkiye Youth Foundation (TÜGVA) and National Willpower Platform have announced protests in front of the historic Hagia Sophia mosque in Istanbul and in the capital, Ankara, against Israel...

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Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh killed in Iran

 (Israel once again doing everything they can to thwart the peace process and the return of the Israeli hostages. All they want is to steal the land from Palestine so a few of em can line their pockets with profits from it. Despicable human beings, and I use that term loosely)

from RT

The leader of the Hamas political wing, Ismail Haniyeh, has been assassinated along with one of his bodyguards in Tehran, the Palestinian group and Iranian authorities have confirmed. 

Hamas was quick to blame the killing on Israel, which has so far declined to comment.

The group said Haniyeh was killed on Tuesday morning in a “treacherous attack of the Zionists on his residence” in Tehran.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has said an investigation is ongoing. 

Haniyeh, usually based in Qatar, was in the Iranian capital for the inauguration of the new president, Masoud Pezeshkian.

The assassination of Haniyeh is a “cowardly act that will not go unpunished”, the Hamas-run channel Al-Aqsa TV quoted senior Hamas official Moussa Abu Marzouk as saying...

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