This comes after a senior Palestinian official told the BBC that negotiations between Hamas and Israel were 90% complete.but key issues remain.
In his speech, Katz said that Israel would “hit hard” against the Houthis and “behead” their leadership.
“Just as we did with Haniya, (Yahya) Sinwar and (Hassan) Nasrallah in Tehran, Gaza and Lebanon, we will do it in Hodeidah and Sana’a,” he said, referring to the leaders of Hezbollah and Hamas , who were killed. this year.
Haniyeh, 62, was considered the main leader of Hamas and played a key role in negotiations aimed at a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
After his assassination, Hamas appointed Yahya Sinwar, its leader in Gaza and one of the main architects of the October 7 attacks, as the group’s overall leader.
Sinvar was was killed by Israeli forces in an accidental encounter in Gaza in October and the group is still in the process of selecting a new leader.
Meanwhile, Hassan Nasrallah was the leader of the Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah. killed in Beirut in September while Israel has dramatically stepped up its military campaign against Hezbollah, which it has been shelling daily across the border since the day after the October 7 attacks.
The Houthis, an Iranian-backed rebel group that controls northwestern Yemen, began attacking Israeli and international shipping in the Red Sea shortly after Israel began striking Hamas in Gaza last October.
The group has vowed to continue its activities until the war in Gaza ends.
On Saturday, the Israeli military announced its attempts to shoot down a projectile launched from Yemen were unsuccessful and the rocket hit a park in Tel Aviv. A Houthi spokesman said the group hit a military target with a hypersonic ballistic missile.
Last week, Israel struck Houthi military targets, strikes on ports, as well as energy infrastructure in the capital of Yemen, Sana’a. The US and UK have also attacked Houthi targets as part of Operation Protection of International Shipping.
Hamas attacked Israel last October, killing about 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.
In response, Israel launched a military campaign against Hamas in Gaza that lasted more than a year and killed 45,317 people, according to Gaza’s health ministry, which is run by Hamas.
That figure includes 58 people killed in Israeli strikes in the past 24 hours, Hamas officials said. Local medical officials said at least 11 people were killed in three separate strikes in the al-Mawasi area, which the Israeli military has designated a “safe zone.” Israel said it targeted a Hamas fighter.
Israel said on Monday that three of its soldiers were killed in the northern Gaza Strip.
Humanitarian and human rights groups have warned of a catastrophic situation for the civilian population in Gaza.
Oxfam said on Sunday that only 12 trucks had delivered food and water to northern Gaza in the past two and a half months and accused the Israeli army of “deliberate delays and systematic obstruction”.
“For three of them, once food and water were delivered to the school where people were hiding, it was cleared and shelled within hours,” Oxfam added.
Israeli authorities said the report “deliberately and inaccurately” ignored “the extensive humanitarian efforts made by Israel in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.”
Israel insisted that specific supplies “including food, water and medical supplies” were sent to the northern areas of Gaza, including Beit Hanoun, Beit Lahiya and Jabalia, where the Israeli military has been conducting a military operation for several months. which he says is aimed at Hamas fighters who have regrouped there.
Oxfam’s report came after human rights groups Amnesty accused Israel of genocide in Gaza and Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Israel of committing “acts of genocide” by deliberately depriving Palestinian civilians in Gaza of proper access to water.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry called Amnesty’s report “completely false and based on lies,” while an Israeli foreign ministry spokesman said Human Rights Watch was “again spreading blood libel… The truth is the complete opposite of HRW’s lies.”
