According to the news published in Al Arabiya, Haniye, who made important statements about the assassination, stated that the guided missile that killed his father was directed by a phone signal. Haniye questioned the existence of a bomb device that caused his father’s death and said, “The bodyguards and other advisors were sitting just a few meters away from my father’s room. If there was a bomb in the room, it would have been inevitable for the The entire building to explode. Therefore, I think the rumors were that there was a bomb in the room completely unfounded.” spoke
Regarding the targeting of the room where the Hamas leader was staying with a missile, Haniye said: “The guided missile was directed by monitoring the mobile phone in my father’s room and near his head the night before the incident. My father attended an official ceremony using his mobile phone, which reduced the complexity of the operation. The night he was martyred, we had many phone calls with my father until 22.15. “I remember him actively using his phone.”
Iran Reveals Details of the Assassination
During this period, Haniye was in Tehran to attend the oath ceremony of the new Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps announced in a statement in the morning hours of July 31 that there was an attack on Haniye’s residence in Tehran. Iranian authorities, who did not make an official statement in the first days of the incident, shared the results of the investigation of the assassination of Haniye with the public on August 4.
It was stated that the assassination was carried out with a short-range rocket carrying a 7 kilogram warhead. On the other hand, the New York Times newspaper published in the USA claimed that Haniye was martyred by the detonation of a bomb that was secretly placed in the house where he was staying months ago.
