U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken confirmed today, Wednesday, that "the United States did not participate in or have knowledge of the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the political bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas." He added in an interview with "News Asia" during his visit to Singapore, in response to a question regarding the implications, "This is something we were not aware of and did not participate in, and it is extremely difficult to speculate."