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Israel plans to kill Hamas leaders abroad after war, according to WSJ

Israel has a plan to kill the leaders of Hamas refugees in different countries like Qatar, Lebanon It is Türkiyeat the time when the war of Linkas reported this Friday by the North American newspaper The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), citing “official Israeli sources”.

According to the newspaper, the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahuhas already given the necessary orders to execute the plans to the secret service of the Mossadand although the plans are confidential, there was a leak on November 22 that made them known.

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The Minister of Defense Yoav Galante said at the time that leaders Hamas “They lived on borrowed time.”

The plans began to be drawn up on October 7th, when the armed wing of the Hamas launched an unexpected attack against Israelkilling 1,200 people and taking more than 200 hostagesbut above all has been the need to maintain Qatar as a mediator for the release of hostages, which delayed covert operations.

The main leader of Hamas, Khaled Meshaallives as a refugee in Qatar for more than ten years, as the leader of his political cabinet, Ismael Haniyelive in Türkiyeand other movement leaders are in Lebanon.

Israel has already tried to kill Mesaal in 1997, when I lived in Love, with a commando who tried to poison him with an injection in the ear, but failed and the perpetrators were arrested by Jordan; Afterwards, the Jordanian government demanded that Israel send the antidote to the poison and also managed to get Israel to release the movement’s founding sheikh. Ahmed Yasin.

Although this was one of Israel’s most notorious covert operations fiascos, the country has carried out many other successful operations around the world. Israeli journalist Ronen Bergman coded these operations in 2,700in your book ‘Get up and kill first‘(Stand up and kill first).

According to the newspaper, part of the plan includes the expulsion of Link from the “troop” in Hamas in order to hasten the end of the war and move on to the assassination phase, hence the Israeli reluctance to accept a ceasefire.

And while there appears to be a lot of consensus on the plans, not all experts seem to agree. Efraim Halevyformer director of Mossadconsiders that killing the movement’s leaders will not eliminate the threats, but will possibly accelerate them by inflaming the anger of their followers.

Assassinate Hamas leaders around the world “It’s a desire revengenot a desire to achieve a strategic objective”he said Halevyaccording to the newspaper.

Source: Elcomercio

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