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Israel’s defence minister has confirmed that the IDF 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. “We will strike hard at the Houthis … and decapitate their leadership – just as we did with Haniyeh, [Yahya] Sinwar, and [Hassan] Nasrallah in Tehran, Gaza, and Lebanon, we will do so in Hodeida and Sanaa,” Israel Katz said on Monday. His remarks, at an event at the defence ministry, mark the first public acknowledgement that Israel was behind the killing in late July of Haniyeh in the Iranian capital. Israel was widely believed to be behind the blast and leaders have previously hinted at its involvement. Iran and Hamas had blamed it for the Hamas political leader’s death. “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,” Katz said, according to a statement issued by the ministry.
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