WEST BANK (Dispatches) – The Zionist regime has admitted publicly for the first time that it assassinated Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in the Iranian capital of Tehran.
War minister Israel Katz made the comments as part of his threats that the Zionist regime planned to escalate its conflict with the Ansarullah in Yemen.
 “Just as we did to [Ismail] Haniyeh, [Yahya] Sinwar, and [Sayyed Hassan] Nasrallah in Tehran, Gaza, and Lebanon,“ Katz alleged, referring to the former Hamas Political Bureau chief, his successor, and the former secretary general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement, the regime would “damage the strategic infrastructure, and behead the leaders“ of whatever party that takes aim at it.
Haniyeh was assassinated back in July after the regime carried out a targeted killing operation against the Iranian capital Tehran, to which he had travelled as an official guest to attend the inauguration ceremony of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. 
The regime assassinated Haniyeh’s successor, Sinwar, in another attack against the Gaza Strip in October, and staged a targeted killing strike against Beirut in September that resulted in the assassination of Nasrallah.
Katz threatened that the regime would carry out the atrocities that he had mentioned in Yemen’s capital Sana’a and western port city of al-Hudaydah.
The resistance groups and their fellow movements across the region have, however, vowed that they would always emerge stronger and more capable from the regime’s attacks, and would not be affected by any hostile measures, including assassination of their leaders.
The Israeli official, however, went on to say, “We have dealt a severe blow” to the regional Axis of Resistance, “and we will also deal a severe blow” to Yemen’s popular resistance Ansarullah movement, “which remains the last to stand and fire at Israel.”
Yemen’s Armed Forces have been conducting numerous pro-Palestinian strikes since October 7, 2023, when the Zionist regime began taking the Gaza Strip under a United States-backed genocidal war that has so far claimed the lives of more than 45,200 Palestinians, mostly women and children.
The strikes have been targeting the American military assets that are deployed off Yemen’s coastline, strategic and sensitive targets across the occupied Palestinian territories as well as the Israeli ships and the vessels heading towards the territories.