As if he knew his time had come, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh’s last words before he was assassinated in Tehran were a Quranic verse about life, death, immortality and resilience. “It is Allah who gives life and causes death. And Allah is all-aware of all actions … ‘If a leader leaves, another will arise’,” Haniyeh said in Arabic. A few hours later he was killed in a suspected Israeli strike on his guest house.
