Israel To Wipe Out Hamas

Nowhere in the world will be safe for Hamas’ leadership, with Israel planning to kill the terror group’s kingpins across the globe when the conflict in the Middle East winds down.

Working on orders from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the country’s top intelligence agencies are putting together plans to continue to hunt down Hamas’ leaders living in the Gaza Strip and West Bank and abroad in countries including Lebanon, Turkey and Iran.

Israel’s spy agencies have a long history of hunting down and assassinating terror leaders who have committed acts against the Jewish state.

One of the more famous cases was highlighted in director Stephen Spielberg’s 2005 film Munich starring Aussie actor Eric Bana, which tells the story of Operation Wrath of God, which carried out the killings of 11 terrorists in retaliation for the hostage-taking and murder of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics.

At the top of Israel’s list will be the Hamas leader dubbed “the bin Laden of Gaza”, Yahya Sinwar, who helped to mastermind the October 7 attacks on Israel.

Sinwar, who borrows his moniker from the mastermind of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the US, Osama bin Laden, has spent 22 years in prison in Israel for terrorist, murder and kidnap plots.

He is the founder of Hamas’ military wing and its intelligence service and has been the leader of the terror group in Gaza since 2017

Israel has vowed to find and kill Sinwar and has said its renewed offensive will not end until he is dead.

He is believed to be hiding in a Hamas command centre underneath a hospital in the Gaza Strip. However, there are suspicions he could or will flee to Egypt.

Either way, Israel is determined to kill him.

Speaking about Sinwar on Saturday, Netanyahu said he was acting like a “little Hitler in a bunker” and said “he has no care for his people”.

Israel Defence Forces spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Richard Hecht compared Sinwar to al-Qa’ida leader bin Laden for his role in the Hamas atrocities.

“Yahya Sinwar is the face of evil. He is the mastermind behind this, like bin Laden was [with the 9/11 US attacks],” Hecht said.

The Israelis have urged Gazans to kill or hand over the Sinwar themselves as this would “hasten the end to the war”.

Israel has killed dozens of Hamas leaders since it began its attacks on Gaza following the October 7 atrocities.

Two other Hamas leaders high on Israel’s hit list are Mohammed Deif, the head of Hamas’ military wing, the Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades, and another planner of the October 7 attacks, and his second-in-command Marwan Issa.

Hamas opened its political bureau in Qatar a decade ago, and other Hamas leaders are believed to be living there.