Israel for the first time officially admitted to being involved in Ismail Haniyeh’s murder in Tehran in July.
Jewish defense secretary Israel Katz confirmed the presence in Haniyeh’s death in his caution to the Houthis in light of recent attacks. ” Israel may damage their proper equipment, and we will kill their leaders – only as we did to Haniyeh, Sinwar and Nasrallah in Tehran, Gaza and Lebanon– we will do it in Hodeidah and Sana’a”, Katz said during an occasion honoring defense ministry personnel.
He also stated that when the Houthi terrorist firm is firing rockets at Israel,” We have defeated Hamas, we have defeated Hezbollah, we have blinded Iran’s security systems and damaged the manufacturing systems, we have toppled the Assad regime in Syria, we have dealt a severe blow to the axis of evil, and we will also offer a severe blow to the Houthi terrorist firm in Yemen, which remains the last have.”
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Egyptian authorities had previously attributed the execution to Israel, but this is their first public acknowledgment of the execution.
Haniyeh, operating from Qatar, led Hamas ‘ foreign politics during the Gaza conflict, which began with a Hamas-led assault on Israel on October 7, 2023. He furthermore participated in peace negotiations.
Following Haniyeh’s dying in Iran’s money, Israeli forces even killed Yahya Sinwar in Gaza. Sinwar, Haniyeh’s son, was considered the designer of the October 7 assault that sparked the latest Israeli-Palestinian issue.
