US president also said he had a ‘very direct’ conversation with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu a day after assassination of Ismail Haniyeh
Hezbollah chief says conflict with Israel is in ‘new phase’ after assassinationsWhat’s next for Hamas after political leader Ismail Haniyeh’s assassination?
Friday’s episode of our daily podcast, Today in Focus, is about the ramifications of the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the political chief of Hamas, which has fuelled fears of a regional conflict.
“We’re in this very uncomfortable position again, of waiting for men who don’t have a track record of necessarily making decisions that support peace, to try and calibrate their response in a way that they think will shore up their military position without letting things or forcing things to escalate further,” the Guardian’s senior international affairs correspondent, Emma Graham-Harrison, told Today in Focus host Michael Safi.
