How did Israel get into Haniyeh’s bedroom?! – Imad al-Din Hussein

How could Israel so easily kill Ismail Haniyeh, head of the Hamas Political Bureau, in his bedroom in a building in northern Tehran? ! The only and main significance of this operation is that Israel has penetrated Iran in a dangerous way, whether through cyber infiltration and artificial intelligence or through agents, which may foreshadow the characteristics of any major conflict between the two countries, if things are destined to happen, and take control and turn it into a major regional conflict rather than a fairly general one. ‎

Ismail Haniyeh was martyred at 2 a.m. on Wednesday while sleeping in his room in a building for veterans in the north of the capital, Tehran. Haniyeh was in Tehran that day to attend the inauguration of Iran’s new President Masoud Pezeshkian, who succeeded President Ebrahim Raisi. President Raisi died about three months ago in a plane crash carrying him and Foreign Minister Hussein. Amir Abdollahian was on his way back from the completion of a dam on the Iran-Azerbaijan border. ‎

We return to the situation of the Israeli terrorist operation, which was not officially acknowledged by Israel until yesterday afternoon, Wednesday. We all know, and Iran knows too, that since the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation last October 7, Israel has officially announced that it will hunt down all Hamas leaders everywhere, so Haniyeh’s movements, actions and residence in Tehran should be safe to the maximum extent possible, and the residence is under full guard and security, so that when Israel was able to reach him with such ease and precision and assassinate him and his bodyguards, it was only in the building where the Islamic leader of the jihadist movement, Ziad al-Nakhalah, was also sleeping, a matter that requires questions, surprise and sometimes even suspicion. ‎

Even more confusing and surprising is that before Haniyeh’s assassination, Israel had successfully attacked a building in the southern suburbs of Beirut, home to Hezbollah’s main headquarters and the residence of Fuad Shukr “Abu Mohsen,” who is considered the second-in-command after Haniyeh. The party’s leader and military adviser, Hassan Nasrallah, lived there.

Until yesterday afternoon, Israel said it had successfully targeted Shukur for his role in the Majdal Shams operation in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, an operation Hezbollah denied responsibility for. The party also denied the martyrdom of Askar at the start of the operation, but he returned and said he was in the building during the attack, thus paving the way for him to be considered a martyr. Prior to the Haniya and Shukur operations, Israel had successfully assassinated Saleh al-Arouri, the second-in-command of the West Bank Politburo and leader, in an attack that also took place in the suburbs where Hezbollah’s headquarters are located. Precision awareness-raising operations were carried out against dozens of the party’s field commanders.

The same applies to many Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip, which even claimed to have dealt a heavy blow to Mohammad Daif and Raad Salama in Gaza two weeks ago. We remember that on April 1 last year, Israel destroyed the Iranian consulate building in Damascus, which led to the killing of Mohammad Reza Zahedi, the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in Syria, and some of his assistants in Syria. Previously, it also killed some senior staff of the Iranian nuclear program. ‎

We remember that on January 3, 2020, the United States killed the commander of the Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani, and the leader of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, after they left the Baghdad airport. All the previous actions mean one thing: Israel has access to the big heads of its enemies and opponents, whether through electronic hacking, or the strength of its security services, which is beyond doubt, but more importantly, it means that it has unfortunately succeeded in infiltrating the small circle of these opponents, whether they are in Tehran or Damascus, Beirut or Gaza. ‎

Do we blame Israel for this? We have opposed its terrorism and aggression since it installed itself in the region in 1948, and it naturally believes that what it does is central to its defense of itself and its interests. But the greatest responsibility should be placed on the resistance, which was unable to prevent Israeli infiltration, even into the bedrooms of its leaders. Haniyeh’s assassination in central Tehran is a wake-up call about the fragility of security in Iran, Lebanon, Syria and Hamas, and reveals the ubiquity of Israeli spies.