Resolution submitted in NA condemning Hamas chief’s killing

Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in the early hours of the morning in Iran

ISLAMABAD:

Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) has submitted a resolution in the National Assembly condemning the killing of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh, Express News reported.

The resolution was submitted by JUI-F Secretary General Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri and other parliamentarians. The resolution states that the Muslim Ummah has lost a great revolutionary leader and fighter.

The resolution further highlights that Ismail Haniyeh brought the Palestinian cause to the global stage and exposed Israel's oppressive actions to the world, hence JUI strongly condemns the attack on Haniyeh.

Hamas leader was assassinated in the early hours of the morning in Iran, the Palestinian group said, drawing fears of wider escalation in a region shaken by Israel's war in Gaza and a worsening conflict in Lebanon.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards confirmed the death of Haniyeh, hours after he attended a swearing in ceremony for the country's new president, and said it was investigating.

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Ismail Haniyeh was the tough-talking face of the Palestinian group's international diplomacy as war raged back in Gaza, where three of his sons were killed in an Israeli airstrike.

But despite the rhetoric, he was seen by many diplomats as a moderate compared to the more hardline members of the Iran-backed group inside Gaza.

Haniyeh became a protégé of Hamas' founder Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, who like Haniyeh's family, was a refugee from the village of Al Jura near Ashkelon.

In 1994, he told Reuters that Yassin was a model for young Palestinians, saying: "We learned from him love of Islam and sacrifice for this Islam and not to kneel down to these tyrants and despots."