Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz admits to the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, former Hamas chief, in Tehran earlier this year, vowing similar action against Houthi leadership. The confirmation sparks fears of escalating regional conflict.
Israel i Defence Minister Israel Katz has acknowledged that Israel assassinated former Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran earlier this year. Katz vowed the military would 'decapitate' the leadership of Yemen 's Houthi s, saying, 'We will strike hard at the Houthi s... and decapitate their leadership — just as we did with Haniyeh, (Yahya) Sinwar, and (Hassan) Nasrallah in Tehran , Gaza , and Lebanon, we will do so in Hudaida and Sanaa.
' This is the first public acknowledgement that Israel was behind the July assassination of Haniyeh in the Iranian capital. In late July, the political leader of the Palestinian resistance group Hamas was murdered in Tehran in an assassination blamed on Israel. Haniyeh, normally based in Qatar, had been the face of Hamas' international diplomacy. He had been taking part in internationally brokered indirect talks on reaching a ceasefire in the blockaded enclave. Haniyeh lost about 60 members of his family who had been killed since Israel's war on Gaza started on October 7. On October 16, Israel killed Haniyeh's successor, Yahya Sinwar, in besieged Gaza. The assassinations raised fears that Israel could drag the region into an all-out-war and prompted suspicions that Tel Aviv is not serious about reaching a ceasefire. Israel has killed over 45,300 Palestinians, mostly women and children, so far in its carnage in the blockaded enclave. It has also caused a massive shortage of basic necessities, including food, water, electricity and medicine, while displacing almost the entire population in the enclave
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