Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement has mourned the leader of the Palestinian Hamas organization, Ismail Haniyeh, saying his killing will fuel further resistance to Israel.
Haniyeh, killed at his residence in Tehran, was “one of the great resistance leaders of our time, who stood courageously against US hegemony and the Zionist occupation,” Hezbollah said in a statement.
“He was ready to be martyred for the cause in which they believed,” it added.
Hezbollah said his death “will increase the resistance fighters’ determination … to continue the path of jihad, and make their will stronger in confronting the Zionist enemy.”
“We in Hezbollah share with our dear brothers in the Hamas movement the pain over the loss of this great leader,” the statement read.
