Israel defence minister has admitted for the first time that this summer it assassinated Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.
Israel Katz used in a speech threatening to eliminate the leaders of the Iran-backed Houthi movement in Yemen that has been launching missiles and drones at Israel.
Haniyeh was assassinated in a safe house in Tehran the Iranian capital, in an attack which was believed to have been carried out by Israel.
On the same note, the Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that some headway have been made about the implementation of a ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza but he did not have a definite time line of when this will be done.
Mr Mladenov spoke after a senior Palestinian official revealed to the BBC that negotiations between Hamas and Israel are 90% ready, but some major points have not been solved for so far.
Speaking in the course of the event, Katz maintained that Israel would ‘hit hard’ the Houthis and ‘cut off its head’.
His remarks came after he pledged to act as he did to [Yahya] Sinwar and [Hassan] Nasrallah in Tehran and Gaza as well in Hodeida and Sanaa as he repeatedly boasted this year of his organization’s assassination of key Hezbollah and Hamas leaders.
Under Hassan Haniyeh, 62, many considered him as the overall leader of Hamas group and participated in chairmanship of negotiations towards the ending of conflict in the Gaza Strip.
This is Yahya Sinwar, one of the masterminds of the 7 October attack, who Hamas appointed its head after the assassination.
Sinwar was reportedly killed in a crossfire with the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip in October and the group is yet to decided on a successor.
On Saturday Israel’s military said that its efforts aimed at launching a projectile fired from Yemen were fruitless and the missile landed in a park in Tel Aviv. Speaking to Al Jazeera, a Houthi spokesman said that the group targeted a military installation using a hypersonic ballistic missile.
Last week Israel staged an attack on what it described as Houthi military installations, attacking ports and energy facilities in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa. The US and UK have also bombed Houthi installations for defending international maritime shipping.
It all started when last October, Hamas launched attacks on Israel where approximately 1,200 people were killed and 251 people held as hostages.
In response, Israel launched a military campaign to destroy Hamas in Gaza which has continued for more than a year and has killed 45,317 people according to the Hamas-run health ministry in the Strip.
Hamas officials said 58 people were killed by Israeli attacks within the past 24 hours. The people on the ground said at least 11 were killed in three aerial bombings on al-Mawasi area which the Israeli military had demarcated as a ‘safe zone’. The IDF claimed that it was aiming at a Hamas operative.
Peace and human rights organizations have predicted grave situation for civilians in Gaza Strip.
Oxfam reported on Sunday only 12 trucks delivered food and water in northern Gaza during the past 2.5 months and accused the Israeli military of ‘premeditated delays and institutionalized hindrances’.
“Three of those”, Oxfam went on, “the school was delivered with food and water where people were taken, then it was cleared and shelled within hours”.
In response, the Israeli authorities called the report “deliberately and inaccurately” disregarding the “vast humanitarian activity performed by Israel in the northern Gaza Strip”.
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