President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo strongly condemned the airstrike in Tehran, Iran, on July 31, 2024, that killed Hamas Political Bureau leader Ismail Haniyeh.
“Yes, it is a violence, a murder that cannot be tolerated, and it happened in Iran’s sovereign territory,” President Jokowi said at the JCC Senayan in Jakarta on Thursday, August 1, 2024 as quoted by detik.com.
The president emphasized that all countries would strongly condemn the killing.
“I think all countries, including Indonesia, strongly condemn such violence and killings,” he added.
Meanwhile, the Indonesian foreign ministry said in its X account on July 31, 2024 that the murder of Haniyeh constitutes a provocative action that could
escalate conflicts in the region and derail the ongoing negotiation.
As reported by Al Jazeera, Hamas’s political chief Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Iran’s capital, Tehran, according to a statement from the group that
runs the besieged and bombarded Gaza Strip. Hamas blames Israel for his killing.
Haniyeh and one of his bodyguards were killed in the early hours of Wednesday after the building where they were staying was struck, the statement said.
“The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas mourns to our great Palestinian people, to the Arab and Islamic nation, and to all the free people of the world: brother, leader, martyr, Mujahid Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the movement, who was killed in a treacherous Zionist raid on his residence in Tehran,” it added.
The news of the assassination has sparked anger across Palestine and stoked fears about a wider regional conflict in the wake of Israel’s war on Gaza, now in its 10 month. Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah and Israel have been exchanging fire over their border, while Yemen’s Houthi rebels have been assaulting Israeli-linked ships in the Red Sea and other waters.
At least 39,445 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s war, with more than 91,000 wounded. Israel began attacking Gaza, promising to eliminate Hamas and kill its leaders after the group launched an attack on October 7, 2023 in southern Israel that led to the killing of some 1,139 people and more than 200 being taken captive.
