Tue Feb 18th, 2025

Israel claims Haniyeh's death in Iran for the first time

Ismail Haniyeh Photo: Khamenei.ir CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Defense Minister Israel Katz has acknowledged for the first time that the Jerusalem government was behind the death of Ismail Haniyeh, head of the political bureau of the Palestinian Islamic terrorist organization Hamas, who died on July 31 in an attack in Tehran.

"We will severely cripple the Houthis, damage their strategic infrastructure and take down their leaders, just as we did with Haniyeh, (Yahya) Sinwar and (Hassan) Nasrallah, in Tehran, Gaza and Lebanon, we will do it in Hodeidah and Sanaa (Yemen)," the defense minister said.

The assassination of Haniyeh was blamed from the start on Israel by the terrorist group Hamas and the Iranian regime.

However, Israeli authorities, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, have avoided confirming or denying their involvement in the attack that resulted in the death of the man considered one of the main perpetrators of the massive Hamas attacks against Israel on October 7, 2023.

Haniyeh, the late leader of the Palestinian Islamic terrorist group, had traveled occasionally to Tehran to attend the inauguration ceremony of Iranian President Masud Pezeshkian when he was eliminated.

Meanwhile, Nasrallah and Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Brigadier General Abbas Nilforushan were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Beirut on September 27.

Iran responded to these two deaths by launching some 200 ballistic missiles at Israel on October 1.

For his part, Sinwar, also mentioned by Katz - during a meeting with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) - and considered by Jerusalem to be the mastermind of the massacres of October 7, 2023, was killed on October 17 of this year in an attack in the Gaza Strip.

Yemen's Houthi terrorists, for their part, have been attacking maritime trade in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea over the past year in "solidarity" with Islamic extremist organizations in the Gaza Strip in the context of the war with the Jewish state.

In addition, they have continuously launched missiles and drones against Israeli territory, to which the Hebrew country has responded with attacks on ports and energy facilities.

Clashes between Israel and Yemen's Houthi terrorists have escalated over the past week, and the Jerusalem government has repeatedly reiterated that it will respond "forcefully" to these attacks.

Agencies contributed to this article of Aurora

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