Israeli Bombing of Gaza: Israeli Defense Minister Says “There is No Difference Between a Terrorist with a Kalashnikov and a Terrorist Wearing a ThreePiece Suit” | Photo: EFE/EPA/ATEF SAFADI
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said this Saturday (18) that all Hamas members, including those outside the Gaza Strip, are “dead men”.
“There is no difference between a terrorist with a Kalashnikov and a terrorist wearing a threepiece suit,” Gallant said in a press statement Saturday.
The Jewish state is waging an offensive in the Palestinian enclave against the terrorist group responsible for the attacks that killed 1,200 Israelis on October 7.
Although Israel has said since the beginning of the conflict that the aim of the action in Gaza was to end Hamas, it was the first time that the Israeli government spoke clearly about taking action against members of the terror group outside the enclave.
Members of Hamas’s leadership, such as Ismail Haniyeh, president of the group’s political directorate, live in Qatar, where they maintain a political office in Doha.
In late October, the American newspaper The Washington Post reported that Qatar had reached an agreement with the United States to review its relations with Hamas, which would come after the release of around 240 hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Qatar has helped the United States and Israel negotiate the release of hostages, but the protection it has provided for years to Hamas leaders has come into greater question since the terror group’s attacks on Israeli territory last month.
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