Biden crit­i­cizes assas­si­na­tion of top Hamas leader for mud­dy­ing cease­fire plans

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On Thurs­day, Pres­i­dent Joe Biden said the assas­si­na­tion of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh will make cease­fire nego­ti­a­tions all the more dif­fi­cult.
As Hamas’s polit­i­cal chief, Haniyeh had engaged in cease­fire talks. Biden has been under immense pres­sure from his par­ty to push Israel and Prime Min­is­ter Ben­jamin Netanyahu to make a deal with the ter­ror­ist orga­ni­za­tion that would slow hos­til­i­ties in Gaza and include the exchange of hostages. How­ev­er, the suc­cess­ful assas­si­na­tion of Haniyeh in Tehran out­raged Iran, which is vow­ing it will seek retal­i­a­tion against Israel.
Israel has not claimed cred­it for the killing, which report­ed­ly took months of p …