Conflicting stories are swirling about how Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed—was it a bomb, a missile, or both? The New York Times initially reported that Haniyeh was taken out by a bomb planted months earlier in his guesthouse. However, this claim is disputed by eyewitnesses and analyses from GGI, which suggest a different scenario. Adding to the confusion, the Telegraph now says that Israeli intelligence, Mossad, hired an Iranian agent to plant the bombs, but the details remain murky and unverified.

The plan was to take Haniyeh out in May during a large funeral for Iran's former president, Ebrahim Raisi. But with so many people around, the mission seemed too risky to execute. So, Mossad changed their strategy.

Instead, they hired Iranian security agents to plant explosives in a guesthouse used by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Tehran. This guesthouse was where Haniyeh was expected to stay. The agents, who were from a unit known as Ansar al-Mahdi, move...