A senior Hamas member was killed in Tehran
62-year-old Ismail Haniyeh had been a prominent Hamas member since the 1980s
Israel imprisoned Ismail Haniyeh for three years during the crackdown on the first Palestinian intifada in 1989
In 2006, after Hamas won the most seats in the elections, Mahmoud Abbas, the President of the Palestinian Authority, appointed him as Prime Minister
A year later, he was removed from this position after Hamas expelled the Fatah party from Gaza
In 2017, he was elected as the head of Hamas’s political bureau
In recent years, he was living in Qatar
Haniyeh was killed in Tehran early this morning