Jeremy Scahill on New Head of Hamas, Questions About Haniyeh Assassination & Iran Retaliation
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Published 2024-08-07
Hamas has named Yahya Sinwar as successor to former senior political leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated in Tehran last week, shortly after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s warmly received visit to the United States. Sinwar helped to found the precursor to Hamas’s current militant wing and is believed to have orchestrated the organization’s October 7 attack on Israel. As the region braces for a retaliatory attack on Israel from Iran, we speak to Jeremy Scahill, whose latest piece for Drop Site News details Hamas’s account of the assassination, and look at how Haniyeh’s death and Sinwar’s ascension may affect Hamas’s next moves and the course of the nearly yearlong conflict in Gaza.
Transcript: www.democracynow.org/2024/8/7/israel_iran_hamas_ya…
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All Comments (21)
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If Warmongering can be started with Lies and Deception, Peace can be waged by Truth and Honesty
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They murdered the chief negotiator. Netanyahu crossing the lines of criminality over and over and the US stands complicit. Horrible
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So glad to hear Scahill on any topic!
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natanyahu and his goons need to get out
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End this Conflict
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put usa tax payer aid to israel on the ballot and let’s see what happens
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Who sows wind harvests storm.
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Netanyahu takes himself for Samson, but runs to his bunker when he provokes other to attack!
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I'm getting whiplash from Democracy Now's toggling between condemning the holocaust of Palestine and shilling for the Democrats who are effectively committing the holocaust of Palestine.
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Of course, unlike Israel, Iran has no right for self defense?
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Jeremy Scahill is the best reporter telling the truth. Thank you as always.
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The Persians are Shia. The Palestinians are Sunni, and Arabs. So, the leader of Hamas, a Sunni muslim, finds shelter in Iran, and then Israel assassinates him. How did Israel know where the leader of Hamas was at the time? Anybody? In the words of Jack Nicholson in the movie The Departed (appropriate title), "I smell a rat."
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Massive respect for Jeremy Scahill
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It has been proven that Iran remains vulnerable to Israeli aggression as long as it lacks a real and effective defense system. It is vital for Iran's long term security to build such a deterrent system that has shielded other nations from outside aggressions.
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Free Palestine,
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Trying ? Hes doing it.
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Nice work BiBi, that coward was living in luxury while his people are being genocide because of his policies
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Sinwar got Ismael.. jealousy and dollars were the reasons.. but he got the position now.. we'll done sir.. politics look the same the world all over..
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New York times the first to report what's just happened in Iran, more like saying US times
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I hope I am wrong, but could it be possible that Sinwar could have escaped to palestine through a connecting tunnel between Gaza and palestine?
