TEHRAN, (PIC)
The Deputy Chairman of the Hamas Movement in the Gaza Strip, Dr. Khalil Al-Hayya, said on Wednesday that the Movement’s political chief Ismail Haneyya was killed in “a treacherous Zionist raid on his residence in Tehran”.
This came at a press conference held by the Movement in Tehran on the Israeli assassination of the Palestinian resistance movement’s political bureau chief Ismail Haneyya earlier today.
“Hamas and the Palestinian people will not stop the resistance march,” he stressed, adding, “The resistance vows to respond to this aggression, and the Zionist entity deserves to pay a heavy price for this crime.”
Al-Hayya also said the missile that killed Haneyya struck him “directly”. As a result of the missile strike, windows, doors and walls in his room were destroyed.
Speaking at a news conference in Tehran, he said that Lebanon and Iran “will never leave this unanswered.”
He said Israel was seeking to “burn the entire region … because they’ve failed to achieve their goals.”
“The Israelis don’t want a deal, they just want to continue their aggression despite all the failure,” al-Hayya added.
He also said that Israel “is continually evading an agreement and wants the occupation to remain in place.”
The senior Hamas official pointed out that Hamas “will continue its resistance to put an end to the [Israeli] occupation of Palestinian land and to achieve the national goal of establishing an independent Palestinian state.”
“Whoever carries the [Hamas] banner after Ismail Haneyya will tread the same path,” he said.
