(VOVWORLD) - Israel’s defense minister has confirmed that the Israel Defense Forces assassinated former Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran earlier this year, and warned that the military would also “decapitate” the leadership of Yemen’s Houthi rebels.
 Former Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh. (Photo:IRNA/VNA) |
Minister Israel Katz said Israel will strike hard at the Houthis and decapitate their leadership – just as what Israel did with Haniyeh, Sinwar, and Nasrallah in Tehran, Gaza, and Lebanon.
His remarks, at an event at the defense ministry, mark the first public acknowledgement that Israel was behind the killing in late July of Haniyeh in the Iranian capital.
Haniyeh, who was seen as leading Hamas's negotiation efforts for a ceasefire in Gaza, was killed in a guesthouse in Tehran on July 31.