The shock assassination of Ismail Haniyeh amid Gaza cease-fire talks, even as the officially confirmed death toll of Palestinians from Zionist extermination since 7 October 2023 reaches 40000, is highly condemnable. Haniyeh who played a pivotal role in mainstreaming Hamas and leading it to victory in 2006 parliamentary election in Gaza and West Bank, has been Hamas’s face in the international arena. Obviously, Haniyeh had always been the target of Zionists.
Since 2017, Haniyeh was in exile and safe in ‘US – friendly’ Qatar. But, the enemy effectively utilised the situation when he went to Tehran, Iran, as a guest to attend the inauguration of Iran’s new President, Masoud Pezeshkian. Now the biggest casualty of Haniyeh assassination is the ongoing ceasefire talks, and obviously the masterminds behind the assassination intend to derail any peace-deal regarding Gaza. And more importantly, the emerging scenario has the potential to drag Iran directly in to war, thereby changing its present pattern.
Therefore, with the assassination of Haniyeh, the situation is now on the brink of an escalation in war engulfing the whole of West Asia with explosive ramifications. It is high time on the part of all anti-Zionist, anti-imperialist and democratic forces the world over to join with like minded forces upholding Palestine liberation in the entire Gulf countries, and unitedly come forward for kicking out Zionism and imperialism from West Asia.
In Solidarity with the Struggle for Palestine Liberation !
Long Live a Secular and Democratic Palestine !!
Kick-out the Zionist-Imperialist Axis from West Asia !!!
Down with Neo-fascism and Imperialism !!!!
International Department
CPI (ML) Red Star
