Hamas denied the Israeli story about the killing of its former political bureau chief, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran on July 31.

In a statement, today, Sunday, the movement adhered to the results of its investigations that it announced immediately after Haniyeh’s killing, stressing that the operation was carried out with a missile that targeted his room, and not a bomb that had been planted there in advance.

The private Hebrew Channel 12 revealed new information about Haniyeh’s killing, after the Israeli censorship allowed it to be published, and based its story on the hypothesis that a bomb had been planted in Haniyeh’s guest room in Tehran.

But the Hamas movement said that these allegations were “a set of lies,” explaining that the investigations it conducted through the joint committee between its security services and the Iranian security services concluded that the killing was carried out by a guided missile weighing 7 and a half kilograms of explosives, targeting Directly to Haniyeh's mobile phone.

She stressed that what Israel announced “is merely a desperate attempt to divert attention from the complex crime that was committed by violating Iran’s sovereignty with a missile that targeted one of its official headquarters.”

Israel admitted its involvement in the killing of Haniyeh in the capital, Tehran, as Defense Minister Israel Katz confirmed that his country had killed Haniyeh in Tehran.

Haniyeh was killed in a guest house belonging to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in the luxurious Saade Abad neighborhood north of Tehran, where he was attending the inauguration ceremony of Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian.

Israeli reports said that Haniyeh was killed by a bomb planted near his bed, and hours after the operation, the Commander of the Revolutionary Guard, Ismail Qaani himself, called Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, and told him that Haniyeh had been killed in an Israeli missile attack.

These reports added: “The letter addressed to the Iranian leader was an additional source of embarrassment for the Revolutionary Guards, especially since it became clear very quickly to those who inspected the guest house that the missile was not the cause of Haniyeh’s death.”