Ali Fadavi, the deputy commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), said Iran will punish Israel “in due time” over the assassination of Hamas’s political chief Ismail Haniyeh, Al Jazeera reports according to the IRNA news agency.

“The fake and child-killing Zionist regime continued its stupidity and martyred Haniyeh on Iranian soil, and we will give an appropriate response in due time and place”, Fadavi was quoted as saying.