After its conflict in the Gaza Strip concludes, Israel plans to conduct assassinations of the leaders of Hamas that coordinated the Oct. 7 attacks around the world for years to come.
Israel’s espionage agencies are already developing strategies to hunt down and kill Hamas officials residing in Turkey, Lebanon, and Qatar. One example is Hamas spokesman Ghazi Hamad, who has been making threats against Israel on Lebanese broadcasts since the war broke out.
Ironically, the three top leaders of Hamas are worth a total of $11 billion and live in luxury safely in Qatar while the people of Gaza are suffering Israeli airstrikes due to Hamas’ actions.
Furthermore, Hamas has been permitted to maintain a political office in Qatar for at least 10 years, according to Qatari officials.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly behind the assassination plans. While some Israeli officials wanted the plans to remain a secret, Netanyahu announced them to the country and to the world, to their chagrin. “I have instructed the Mossad to act against the heads of Hamas wherever they are,” Bibi said. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant backed up his assertion: Hamas leaders are living on “borrowed time,” he said. “They are marked for death. The struggle is worldwide, both the terrorists in Gaza and those who fly in expensive planes.”
This will be the Prime Minister’s second attempt at assassinating the leaders of Hamas. In 1997, Netanyahu ordered Israeli spies to poison Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal in Jordan, but it was a failure. In fact, it was such a failure that Israel agreed to release Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin to placate Jordan’s King.
Israel has a history of launching assassinations and manhunts against its enemies. After a Palestinian terrorist attack killed 11 Israeli athletes and coaches at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, the Israeli government tracked down and killed everyone involved. Israeli agents dressed up as women while they hunted Palestinian militants in Beirut. They dressed as tourists to execute a Hamas leader in Dubai. They assassinated a nuclear scientist in Iran with a remote-control rifle and blew up a Hezbollah leader in Syria with a car bomb. Israel also hunted down prominent Nazis like Herberts Cukurs and Adolf Eichmann. Their hitman escapades have made their way into Hollywood with films like Munich in 2005 and the Ghosts of Beirut in 2023.
While international law in most cases prohibits assassinations, Israel has suffered through repercussions for such behavior in the past, and evidently intends to suffer through them again.
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