Palestinian armed group Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Tehran on Wednesday in an attack blamed on Israel, which has not directly commented on it. The killing came hours after an Israeli strike on Beirut killed the military chief of Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement, Fuad Shuk. As the region braced for further escalation, Hezbollah and Israel kept up their near-daily exchanges of fire. Tehran has said it expects Hezbollah to hit deeper inside Israel and no longer be confined to military targets. Far from the Lebanese border, the Israeli military said around 15 rockets had crossed from the southern Gaza Strip into Israel on Monday, with medics reporting one injury.
