Hamas's supreme leader Haniyeh shocked the world when he was killed in an attack on Iran's capital. How exactly does Israel do it? At present, the mystery of the assassination is gradually being revealed.
First, there are two theories about how exactly Israel knew about Chania's whereabouts. The first claim, from Iran media, is that one of Chania's bodyguards leaked key information that led to his attack. However, no concrete evidence was provided.
In addition, foreign media broke the news that Israel planted spyware in Chania's mobile phone with the help of an APP, so as to determine the location of the latter. In the fields of spyware and hacker theft, Israel is indeed very advanced, and it is entirely possible to obtain specific information about Chania through hacking means.
Other journalists pointed out that Chania spoke with his son on the phone before he was assassinated. Calling may also reveal his location.
Judging from the timing of the attack on Chania, he was killed in an airstrike on his residence after attending the inauguration ceremony of Iran's President Pezekhitsian in Tehran. The inauguration of the Iran president was public, and perhaps Israel spies were involved and could have accurately grasped Hania's itinerary.
Second, what kind of weapons did Israel use to kill Chania?
At first, foreign media reported that Chania had suffered an air strike, and later there were reports that Chania had been attacked by missiles launched from outside Iran.
At the moment, none of these arguments are convincing. At the time of the inauguration of the Iranian president, Iran's land, sea and air forces must have been on high alert, and it is hard to imagine that Israel warplanes calmly flew into Tehran and dropped bombs. And if it is a missile from outside the country that comes to bomb it, it will be difficult for the first to hit so accurately, and second, it will be difficult to grasp the right time, and the third long-range missile is so powerful that it can completely destroy the entire building.
According to an Israel media report, the attack occurred at around 2 a.m. that day when an Israel-made Spike anti-tank missile was fired from near his residence in Haniyeh and hit his bedroom.
Comparatively speaking, this claim is more credible. After all, Chania had indeed suffered a precision strike, with missiles hitting his bedroom directly, while the rest of the building had not suffered much damage. At the time of the attack, Jihad's secretary-general was in the same building as Chania, and he was unscathed. It would have been almost impossible to be so precise if it were not for the missile launched at close range.
Judging from the data, the "Spike" anti-tank missile generally attacks at a distance of between 200 meters and 4 kilometers, and the accuracy is very high, which is very suitable for killing the enemy's important targets at close range. Moreover, the anti-tank missile had a limited blast power, so it only killed Chania, but did not destroy the rest of the building.
In other words, after Israel had the specific location information of Chania, it immediately arranged for local spies to fire an anti-tank missile at Hania's bedroom at close range, killing him in one shot.
Through this assassination, we can also see the horror of Israel's Mossad, although Iran has repeatedly claimed to catch Israel spies, it is clear that there are spies lurking in Iran. How to find out those spies and saboteurs is a great test of Iran's capabilities.