Hamas political wing leader Ismail Haniyeh is the latest in a long list of Palestinian movement officials targeted or killed in attacks blamed on Israel. According to several Iranian media outlets, Haniyeh is said to have ” was killed by an aerial projectile ” in an attack carried out by the Hebrew state.
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In 1996, Yehya Ayache, considered the chief bomb maker of Hamas, was killed in Gaza by the explosion of a booby-trapped telephone, in an operation attributed to the Shin Bet, the service Israeli internal security.
The following year, two Israeli agents disguised as Canadian tourists poisoned in Jordan Khaled Mechaalstill today one of the highest leaders of the Islamist movement. They will be unmasked and arrested before leaving the country, forcing Israel to provide the antidote in exchange for their release.
On July 22, 2002, Salah Chehade, the leader of the al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, died in an Israeli air raid in Gaza. Fifteen civilians died with him, including his wife, their daughter and eight other children.
In March 2004, Ahmed Yassin, presented as the spiritual father of the Palestinian organization, left a mosque in Gaza and was killed by three rockets fired from an Israeli helicopter.
There have been dozens of targeted operations that have intensified further since the Hamas terrorist attack on October 7, such as this strike on January 2, 2024 against Salah al-Arouri. Hamas’ number 2 was killed in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
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