Iran says it will "punish" Israel for the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.

The US will deploy additional warships and fighter jets to the Middle East to help defend Israel from possible attacks by Iran and its proxies, the Pentagon said.

Missile defence forces were placed on a state of increased readiness to deploy, the Pentagon said, adding that its commitment to defend Israel was “ironclad”.

Iran’s leader Ayatollah Khamenei has vowed “harsh punishment” against Israel for the assassination of Haniyeh.

Haniyeh, 62, was widely considered Hamas’s overall leader and played a key role in negotiations aimed at reaching a ceasefire in the Gaza war.

  • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOP
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    5 months ago

    Yeah there’s totally no Apartheid state committing Genocide. Just those evil Iranian cartoon villains being evil again right?

    • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
      21·
      5 months ago

      There’s totally not a large military force inside Gaza made up of tens of thousands funded and armed by Iran, and hiding behind civilians to cause as much outrage as possible and make eliminating them incredibly difficult.

      You know, the ones that killed over a thousand Israelis on Oct 7th.

      The US killed about a half a million civilians in the middle east in response to 9/11.