Israel Strikes Qatar in Attempt to Assassinate Hamas Leadership

Khalil al-Hayya, the leader of Hamas, was one of the targets of the operations.

By: Yohan Jeremy Bob, Amichai Stein – The Jerusalem Post; jpost.com

The IDF and the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) on Tuesday confirmed a stunning attempt to assassinate Hamas’s leadership in Doha, Qatar.

After two years of Qatar hosting negotiations between Israel and Hamas over hostage exchanges and ceasefires, the government reached the decision that killing the remaining Hamas leaders was more important than leaving that diplomatic channel open.

An IDF statement said that the leaders targeted were responsible for the October 7, 2023, massacre of around 1,200 Israelis in the country’s South, as well as managing the terror group’s operations for years before that.Khalil al-Hayya, the leader of Hamas, was one of the key targets of the operation, an Israeli official confirmed to The Jerusalem Post.

Other Israeli sources told the Post that senior Hamas officials were killed in the strike in Doha, estimating that there were between four and eight senior officials in Hayya’s secret apartment at the moment it was bombed.

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https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-866899