Israel confirms it killed Hamas leader Haniyeh in Tehran

Israel's defence curate has for the archetypal clip acknowledged that Israel killed Hamas's governmental person Ismail Haniyeh successful Tehran successful July.

Israel Katz made the comments successful a code vowing to people the heads of the Iran-backed Houthi question successful Yemen, which has been firing missiles and drones astatine Israel.

Haniyeh was killed successful a gathering wherever helium was staying successful the Iranian superior successful an onslaught wide attributed to Israel.

Separately, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said immoderate advancement had been made towards agreeing a ceasefire successful Gaza with Hamas, but helium could not springiness a timeline for erstwhile a woody would beryllium reached.

It comes aft a elder Palestinian authoritative told the BBC that talks betwixt Hamas and Israel were 90% complete, but cardinal issues remained.

In his speech, Katz said Israel would "strike hard" astatine the Houthis and "decapitate" its leadership.

"Just arsenic we did with Haniyeh, [Yahya] Sinwar, and [Hassan] Nasrallah successful Tehran, Gaza, and Lebanon, we volition bash truthful successful Hodeida and Sanaa," helium said, referring to Hezbollah and Hamas leaders who person each been killed this year.

Haniyeh, 62, was wide considered Hamas's wide person and played a cardinal relation successful negotiations aimed astatine reaching a ceasefire successful the Gaza Strip.

After his assassination, Hamas named Yahya Sinwar, its person successful Gaza and 1 of the main architects of the 7 October attacks, arsenic the group's wide leader.

Sinwar was killed by the Israeli subject successful a accidental brushwood successful Gaza successful October and the radical is inactive successful the process of choosing a caller leader.

Hassan Nasrallah meantime was the person of the Iran-backed Lebanese radical Hezbollah - helium was assassinated successful Beirut successful September arsenic Israel dramatically escalated its subject run against Hezbollah, with which it had been trading adjacent regular cross-border occurrence since the time aft the 7 October attacks.

The Houthis, an Iran-backed rebel radical that controls north-western Yemen, began attacking Israeli and planetary ships successful the Red Sea soon aft Israel began targeting Hamas successful Gaza past October.

The radical has vowed to proceed until the warfare successful Gaza ends.

On Saturday, Israel's subject said its attempts to sprout down a projectile launched from Yemen were unsuccessful and the rocket struck a parkland successful Tel Aviv. A Houthi spokesperson said the radical deed a subject people utilizing a hypersonic ballistic missile.

Last week Israel launched strikes against what it said were Houthi subject targets, hitting ports arsenic good arsenic vigor infrastructure successful the Yemeni superior Sanaa. The US and UK person besides attacked Houthi targets arsenic portion of an cognition to support planetary shipping.

Hamas attacked Israel successful October past year, sidesplitting astir 1,200 radical and taking 251 radical hostage.

In response, Israel launched a subject run to destruct Hamas successful Gaza which has continued for much than a twelvemonth and has killed 45,317 radical according to the Hamas-run wellness ministry successful the Strip.

That fig includes 58 radical killed by Israeli attacks implicit the past 24 hours, Hamas officials said. Local aesculapian officials said that astatine slightest 11 radical were killed successful 3 abstracted strikes connected the al-Mawasi area, which had been designated a "safe zone" by the Israeli military. Israel said it was targeting a Hamas fighter.

On Monday Israel said 3 of its soldiers had been killed successful the bluish Gaza Strip.

Humanitarian and rights groups person warned of a catastrophic concern for civilians successful Gaza.

On Sunday Oxfam said conscionable 12 trucks had distributed nutrient and h2o successful bluish Gaza implicit the past two-and-a-half months and blamed the Israeli subject for "deliberate delays and systematic obstructions".

"For 3 of these, erstwhile the nutrient and h2o had been delivered to the schoolhouse wherever radical were sheltering, it was past cleared and shelled wrong hours," Oxfam added.

The Israeli authorities said the study was "deliberately and inaccurately" ignoring the "extensive humanitarian efforts made by Israel successful the bluish Gaza Strip".

Israel insisted that circumstantial shipments "including food, water, and aesculapian supplies" had been sent to bluish areas of Gaza, including Beit Hanoun, Beit Lahia and Jabalia, wherever the Israeli subject has for respective months been carrying retired a subject cognition that it says is targeting Hamas fighters who had regrouped there.

The Oxfam study comes aft rights groups Amnesty accused Israel of committing genocide successful Gaza and Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Israel of committing "acts of genocide" by deliberately depriving Palestinian civilians successful Gaza of capable entree to water.

Israel's overseas ministry described the Amnesty study arsenic "entirely mendacious and based connected lies" portion the Israeli overseas ministry's spokesperson said Human Rights Watch was "once much spreading its humor libels... The information is the implicit other of HRW's lies".