Faced with attacks by Yemen’s Houthis and other Iranian proxies, Israel “must target Iran directly,” Benny Gantz declares. Speaking with the press ahead of his National Unity party’s weekly faction meeting in the Knesset,

Iran dismissed as “preposterous and ridiculous” claims by investigators in Sweden and Belgium that the Islamic Republic has recruited children to attack Israeli targets in their countries.

Iran has been hiring young people in Europe to attack Israeli and Jewish targets in countries across the continent, according to media reports.

Iran on Tuesday denounced what it termed Israel's "brazen admission" of having killed former Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran earlier this year, a

Israel assassinated Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh this summer in Iran, defence minister Israel Katz has confirmed and threatened to take similar action against the Houthi rebels in Yemen. Haniyeh, the 62-year-old international face of the militant group,