Israel willing to assassinate all the leaders of Hamas

Gaza’s biggest hospital has become the epicentre of fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas in the battle on the ground and for world opinion.

The World Health Organization (WHO), has already given many cries out into the world about the terrible and inhuman conditions in Gaza. The laws of war state that hospitals should not be attacked, but Israel does not bother with that and has already shelled and even bombed several hospitals.

The world came already to see horrible pictures of hospitals like the Al-Shifa hospital where staff, patients and thousands of sheltering residents were trapped inside due to heavy fighting.

Before and after Israeli forces stormed the complex on Nov. 15, Israeli Defense Forces officials said they had “concrete evidence” that Hamas was operating in tunnels and bunkers under the medical complex, the Palestinian enclave’s largest. “Terrorists came here to command their operations,” Israel Defense Forces spokesperson Daniel Hagari said on Nov. 22. But the Post reported that rooms connected to a tunnel the IDF found showed no sign of militant activity, and none of the five hospital buildings Hagari pointed to had access to tunnels.

The day the United States allowed the passage of a United Nations Security Council resolution urging the acceleration of assistance to Gaza Strip Palestinians, but stopping short of calling for a ceasefire, several tunnels were exploded by the Israeli forces.

After days of negotiations, the resolution passed Friday called for “for urgent steps to immediately allow safe and unhindered humanitarian access, and also for creating the conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities,” the Associated Press reported.
The resolution culminated a week and a half of high-level diplomacy by the United States, the UAE on behalf of Arab nations and others. The vote, initially scheduled for Monday, was pushed back each day until Friday.

During a week-long temporary ceasefire, Hamas, who had abducted more than 240 civilians on Oct. 7, released more than 100 hostages in exchange for three times that number of Palestinians detained by Israel.

Two weeks after the 7 October attacks launched by Hamas into southern Israel which killed 1,200 people, Benjamin Netanyahu told a press conference that he had instructed Mossad, Israel’s overseas intelligence service, to

“assassinate all the leaders of Hamas wherever they are”.

In early December a leaked recording revealed Ronen Bar, the head of Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, telling Israeli parliamentarians that Hamas leaders would be killed

“in Gaza, in the West Bank, in Lebanon, in Turkey, in Qatar, everywhere … It will take a few years, but we will be there in order to do it.”

Israel is known for having killed certain people somewhere in the world on several occasions, clandestine assassinations, with targets ranging from Palestinian leaders to Iranian nuclear scientists.

Israeli security services are now targeting on killing the leaders of Hamas in Gaza and in Qatar, Turkey, Lebanon and the group’s support networks elsewhere.

Yossi Melman, a journalist and author who has covered the Israeli security services for decades, said the assassinations strategy

“doesn’t solve anything”.

“The Israeli intelligence community is in love with assassinations, and now they are ashamed, humiliated and they want to redeem themselves,”

he said.

The great danger in the way Israel is now quasi razing Gaza to the ground and claiming it wants and will kill all Hamas supporters is making many people rally more behind Hamas and oppose the Israelis even more strongly.