The leader of Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels has said Israel has “failed miserably” in Gaza, a day after a ceasefire deal was announced in the Palestinian territory, AFP reports.

“The Israeli enemy failed to achieve its declared and clear goals, and failed miserably to recover its prisoners without an exchange deal,” Abdulmalik al-Huthi said in a televised address, insisting that Israel and the US were “obliged” to accept the ceasefire.