Hamas says its leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Iran

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed by a predawn airstrike in the Iranian capital on Wednesday, Iran and the militant group said.

The news of Haniyeh’s death came just hours after Israel said it had killed a top commander of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, Fuad Shukr 'Sayyid Muhsan,' in an airstrike in the Lebanese capital of Beirut in retaliation for the Saturday killing of 12 children in a rocket attack on Majdal Shams in the Israel-controlled Golan Heights. 

There was no immediate comment from Israel, which has vowed to kill Haniyeh and other Hamas leaders over the group’s Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel.