Ismail Haniyeh’s Assassination: Implications for the Middle East

Since the onset of the war in Gaza, Iran and Israel have already been involved in proxy wars and engaged in clandestine activities aimed at incurring damage to each other. Nevertheless, the situation has the potential to escalate further, prompting intense military activities and might precipitate retaliatory strikes from Iranian-backed proxy groups across the region, notably Hamas, Hezbollah, and Houthis.