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Senior Hamas Official Confirms Haniyeh Was Hit “Directly” By Missile The missile that killed Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh struck him "directly," Hamas deputy chief in Gaza Khalil Al-Hayya said on July 31, citing witnesses who had been with Haniyeh in Iran.As a result of the missile strike, windows, doors and walls in his room were destroyed, Al-Hayya told a press conference in Tehran.Haniyeh was assassinated in the Iranian capital Tehran early on Wednesday morning, an attack that drew threats of revenge on Israel and fueled further concern that the conflict in Gaza was turning into a wider Middle East war.The Palestinian Islamist militant group and Iran's Revolutionary Guards confirmed Haniyeh's death. The Guards said it took place hours after he attended a swearing-in ceremony for Iran's new president.Although the attack was widely assumed to have been carried out by Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government made no claim of responsibility and said it would make no comment on the killing.