War-weary Gazans received a “thunderbolt” when Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in an airstrike in Tehran on Wednesday. Some expressed sadness that Iran was unable to “protect him.”
“This news is unbelievable, like a thunderbolt,” Wael Qudayh, 35, a native of Deir Al-Balah, the center city, said.
Haniyeh was murdered in Tehran by an Israeli airstrike, according to a statement released on Wednesday by Hamas and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.
He was in the Iranian capital on Tuesday to witness President Masoud Pezeshkian’s inauguration.
Youssef Saeed, 40, a resident of Deir el-Balah, stated, “Qatar was able to protect Haniyeh for 10 months, but Iran was unable to protect him even for a few hours.”
The 45-year-old employee at a private facility in Ramallah, Hossam Abdel Razek, claimed that Haniyeh’s murder demonstrated that the “blood of Palestinians is cheap.”
“We, the Palestinian people, have no protector, our blood is cheap, and the Arab and Islamic country sold us out to America and Israel,” he declared, referring to the death of Ismail Haniyeh in Iran.
To condemn Haniyeh’s death, Palestinian factions called for a mass strike and marches on Wednesday throughout the occupied West Bank.
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