Israel Katz, the minister of defense, said on Monday that Israel had murdered Ismail Haniyeh, the former head of Hamas, in Tehran earlier this year while threatening to “decapitate” the Houthi rebel leadership in Yemen.
“We’re going to hit the Houthis hard. “We will decapitate their leadership in Hodeida and Sanaa, just as we did with Haniyeh, (Yahya) Sinwar, and (Hassan) Nasrallah in Tehran, Gaza, and Lebanon,” Katz stated.
At a defense ministry event, he made the first public admission that Israel was responsible for Haniyeh’s death in the Iranian capital in late July.
According to a ministry statement, Katz declared, “Anyone who raises a hand against Israel will have his hand cut off, and the long arm of the IDF (Israeli military) will strike him and hold him accountable.”
Though Iran and Hamas had accused Israel of being responsible for the assassination of the Hamas senior leader, Israel had never acknowledged that it had killed Haniyeh.
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