There was Saleh Arouri, a Hamas deputy military commander, eliminated by the IDF in January 2024.
There was Muhammad Deif, Hamas’ senior military commander in Gaza, who was killed by an airstrike on July 13.
There was Fuad Shukr, the military commander of Hezbollah, and second in the terror group’s hierarchy, just behind Hassan Nasrallah, killed on July 30, by an Israeli airstrike in Beirut.
There was Ismail Haniyeh, the Doha-based billionaire head of Hamas’ “political wing,” who was visiting Tehran to attend the inauguration of Iran’s new president, and just a few hours after joining others in a rousing rendition of “Death to Israel” and “Death to America,” he returned to his room in a government guesthouse secured by Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps guards, and was blown up by a bomb that Mossad, or its Iranian agents, had placed there months before, to be detonated from afar only when Haniyeh, and no other guest, inhabited that room.
There was Samer Mahmoud Al-Haj, a senior Hamas commander and recruiter at the Ain al-Hilweh camp in Lebanon, killed in an Israeli airstrike on August 9.
The IDF announced just the day after that, on August 10, that it had killed senior Hamas commander Walid al-Sousi in Gaza the day before. He had been the head of Hamas’s General Security Apparatus in southern Gaza, involved in managing intelligence and crushing resistance to the regime.
He was eliminated by Israel Air Force jets and the Israeli Military Intelligence Directorate.
Clearly, the threats from Hamas, Hezbollah and, especially, Iran to wreak a terrible vengeance on Israel for the killings of Fuad Shukr in Beirut and of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran have not deterred the IDF in the slightest. Since that warning, at least two more targeted killings of Hamas commanders — Samer Mahmoud al-Haj in northern Lebanon, and Walid al-Sousi in southern Gaza — have been carried out. The IDF has signaled to Hezbollah and Iran that it will not call a halt to its campaign of targeted assassinations.It doesn’t fear their threats and is even now preparing itself for a possible all-out war with Iran. It’s not a war that Israel wants, just as it did not want the war with Hamas it felt compelled to fight after the atrocities committed by the terror group on October 7. But it’s a war, like the war in Gaza that is now in its tenth month, that Israel is prepared to fight. And some Israelis, convinced of the inevitably of such a war, would like it to take place before Iran acquires nuclear weapons.
The wide-ranging attacks in southern Gaza that have killed many dozens of Hamas combatants and destroyed terrorist infrastructure, especially the tunnels that are continually being discovered and just as swiftly being blown up or filled with cement by the IDF, show that the IDF has not been cowed in the slightest by the Iranian threats that filled the airwaves after the killing of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran. In fact, almost two weeks after Haniyeh’s death, Iran has yet to launch a single rocket toward Israel. Perhaps the ayatollahs sense that the IDF has something unusual planned — some weapon that the world does not yet know about — should Iran provide the justification for its use by recklessly attacking the Jewish state. The Israeli high command appears to be unruffled, and even looking forward to finally striking “at the head of the snake,” which is Iran, directing its proxies — Hamas in Gaza, the Houthis in Yemen, Hezbollah in Lebanon— who form that snake’s body. Does the Iranian regime want to risk its survival, knowing that if it is overwhelmed and humiliated by the IDF, disaffected Iranians may take that occasion to rise up and overturn their tormentors?
Frank Anderson says
“You can run; But you will just die tired!”
Transmaster says
There is a YouTube channel who is an expert on Palestinians he points out something I would never had known. There are the Greater Jordanians who call themselves Palestinians, and there are Arabs who also call themselves Palestinian. You can tell the difference by their names. I am not knowledgeable to tell the difference. But most all of the fully integrated Israeli Palestinians are Jordanian. It is the Arab Palestinians that cause most of the trouble. I have seen Israeli Palestinians who are generational citizens of Israel who report no discrimination and are just as horrified of what these Arabic Palestinians are doing has anyone else should be. These “native Palestinians” however are the walking dead in any Palestinian area, so actually being centuries long natives to area makes them collaborators.
MD Anthony says
Yup…It’s EGO “Lets announce our senior commanders to the levant. Let’s see them wave to the crowsds of the faithful..yes those Senior commanders are just dying to be killed….
ploome says
Why did Israel wait so long to eliminate all these individuals?
They should have been neutralized/vaporized immediately after Oct 7.
somehistory says
sinwar was in prison for murder, but released for a swap. That ghoul is still breathing….and should have been “vaporized” when he was captured. If he had been, he would not have been around to help plan and carry out the Oct 7 slaughter.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Israel’s – and our – policy should be take no prisoners. It’s not worth trying to extract “intel” out of them: they just remain potential targets of hostage swaps. Everyone who can be killed must be killed, & reported as killed in battle. That way, there is no incentive for jihadists to take hostages: they’ll just have to kill them on the spot, if they have to engage in their jihad
gravenimage says
These Jihadi thugs kidnap Israelis to swap for terrorists.
rick says
The only problem is that these guys are really a dime a dozen. What are the qualifications for a Hamas commander? 1. Extreme Hatred of Jews – just about every male Palestinian qualifies. 2. Willing to commit the most heinous acts from participating in gang rape, baby murder, parents shoot in front of their children and vice versa, etc. – More than enough of these sub humans in Gaza as well. 3. Willing to steal and share the loot with other Hamas “commanders” and never say anything about it to anyone who is literate and may mention it in a news article. 4. Willing to live the nice high life while Gaza civilians are doing very poorly. No problem.
There you have it. No West Point. No military Academy. Just think and act like an assassin and you passed the qualifying test.
somehistory says
Kind of the opposite of the three monkeys. See evil, hear evil, speak evil and be more than willing to commit any and all kinds of evil; and then lie about it.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Hamas & Hizbullah are the modern version of the 12th century Order of the Assassins (Hashashins) in Alamut, Iran and Masyaf, Syria. They have a historical precedent of how to select their leaders
OLD GUY says
Most of these terrorist leaders are heading the groups for their own private wealth. And for that reason there will always be another and another to step in to take the dead leaders place.
Its good to be the King, until the missile hits you.
gravenimage says
Another Day, Another Senior Commander Killed
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Excellent news!