President Ranil Wickremesinghe has expressed his strong condemnation of the assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh.
The President condemned the act while addressing a meeting with former Provincial Council members of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) & the United National Party (UNP) today.
According to the President’s Media Division (PMD), President Wickremesinghe further stressed that unequivocally he would never condone such actions.
Hamas’s political chief Ismail Haniyeh had been assassinated in Iran’s capital, Tehran, according to a statement from the group that governs Gaza, which blamed Israel for his death.
Haniyeh and one of his bodyguards were killed after the building where they were staying was struck, the statement said, adding that Haniyeh was in Tehran to attend the inauguration ceremony of Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian on Tuesday. (Newswire)
