Hanan Ashrawi, a Palestinian political leader and a former member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee, said Israel’s “gangster style assassination and extrajudicial executions” are designed to “inflame the whole region”, Al Jazeera reports.

The killings of Hamas’s political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran and Hezbollah military commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut, Lebanon, were carried out to “sabotage any chances” of a ceasefire deal in Gaza and regional de-escalation, Ashrawi said.

“These are attacks not just on the capitals of sovereign states but also on significant leaders to ensure total provocation [and] destabilisation,” she wrote on social media.

“Israel is a rogue state that represents a real [and] present danger globally,” she said.