Indonesian president condemns Hamas leader’s ‘murder’
Indonesian President Joko Widodo has labelled Wednesday’s assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh “murder”.
“That was violence, a murder that is intolerable, and took place in the sovereign area of Iran,” he said in a speech at the Jakarta Convention Center. “I suppose all, including Indonesia, strongly condemn violence and murder like that,” he said.
Hamas has accused Israel of carrying out the strike on Haniyeh’s residence in Iran’s capital Tehran. Israel has yet to claim responsibility.
Malaysian PM slams Meta for removing Facebook post about Haniyeh assassination
Malaysia’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has criticised Meta Platforms META.O after his Facebook post marking the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was removed.
Anwar’s now-removed post was of a recording of his phone call with a Hamas official in which he offered his condolences over Haniyeh’s death in Tehran on Wednesday.
“Let this serve as a clear and unequivocal message to Meta: Cease this display of cowardice,” Anwar said on Facebook.
Muslim-majority Malaysia is a vocal supporter of the Palestinian cause, and Anwar, who met Haniyeh in Qatar in May, has previously said he has good relations with Hamas’s political leadership.
The incident is Malaysia’s latest run-in with Meta about pulling down Hamas-related content. Meta has designated the Palestinian group a “dangerous organisation” and bans content praising it.
Malaysia asks Meta for explanation over removal of PM Anwar’s Facebook post
Malaysia’s Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil has said he has asked META.O for an explanation as to why a Facebook post by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim marking the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was removed from the platform.
‘They may kill Haniyeh but not his ideas’: Malaysia’s Mahathir
Malaysia’s former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has issued a statement mourning Haniyeh’s assassination, saying Israel had killed the “great man” because it “feared and hated everything he stood for”.
Mahathir, who served as Malaysia’s premier for 24 years between 1981 and 2020, described Haniyeh as “a soft-spoken man, yet with the heart of a lion”.
“His courage to stand up for his people obviously stemmed from a clear conscience and guided by a moral compass that is based on humanity and religious conviction,” Mahathir said.
“They may kill Mr Haniyeh but not his ideas and what he stood for,” he said.
I hope not since Haniyeh was much more moderate and interested in peace instead of more war. Which is why Netanyahu wanted him gone. His purpose of Hamas was to keep Palestinians divided between the West Bank and Gaza. No doubt the reconciliations brokered by China between Fatah and Hamas have been a driving force for this assassination.
Israel wants Hamas to become more radical so they justify their genocide and annex more of the West Bank in the chaos. Yet as with all the other assassinations it's already backfiring with calls for more unity.
China hopes Palestinian factions can create an independent state soon
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson makes this statement while addressing a question on the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran.
“China earnestly looks forward to all Palestinian factions, on the basis of internal reconciliation, create an independent Palestinian state as soon as possible,” Lin Jian said during a regular press briefing.
