Assassination and eliminations ?leader can stop Hamas

Since the establishment of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas in 1987, the movement has been subjected to a series of attacks and assassinations, targeting its founding members and senior leaders.Assassinations, as part of the efforts of the occupying regime to eliminate the Palestinian cause since the Nakba in 1948, have been used to eliminate Palestinian and Arab leaders and symbols supporting the Palestinian cause and to prevent their influence.The majority of contemporary assassinations have been carried out by the Zionist regime against resistance groups, especially members of the Hamas movement. The Zionists have carried out these assassinations either directly or indirectly through betrayal and coordination with certain regimes, including the Palestinian Authority. In the early years of Hamas’s establishment, when a wide range of its leaders, including its founder Ahmed Yassin, Muhammad Deif, Salah Shahada, Yahya Sinwar, and Ruhi Mushtahi were detained, the movement suffered a significant blow.”Marj al-Zuhur” is an operation in which the occupying authorities exiled 415 members of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements to Lebanon on December 12, 1992. In 1996, when Yahya Ayyash, the prominent engineer of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing, was martyred, the Zionist regime intensified its policy of assassination and pressure on Hamas leaders.About a year later, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the assassination of Khaled Mashal, the head of the political bureau of Hamas at the time, in Amman, Jordan. The operation failed and ultimately led to a deal. King Hussein of Jordan at the time informed Netanyahu that if the antidote to save Khaled Mashal’s life was not sent, the Mossad agents would be prosecuted. Netanyahu eventually agreed, and a number of Palestinian and Jordanian prisoners, including Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, were released as part of the deal.In 1999, Jordan decided to close the Hamas offices in Amman, and the political bureau of the movement was transferred to Doha, the capital of Qatar, where it stayed for several years before moving to Damascus, Syria. In 2012, it returned to Doha.With the start of the Second Intifada, known as the “Al-Aqsa Intifada” in 2000, the frequency of assassinations within Hamas increased as the occupiers targeted political, military, and intellectual leaders as part of their efforts to eliminate the organization. The frequency of assassinations peaked in 2003 when the occupiers assassinated Ismail Abu Shanab, Salah Shahada, and Ibrahim al-Makadmeh, and then assassinated Ahmed Yassin in March 2004. Two weeks later, Abdulaziz al-Rantisi, Yassin’s successor, was martyred.In July 2006, the occupiers attempted to assassinate the leaders of the al-Qassam Military Council when they bombed a house in the Gaza Strip during a meeting of al-Qassam Brigades leaders. However, everyone in the house survived, except for the Abu Salmiah family who were killed in the bombing. At the end of 2008, Hamas faced one of its toughest challenges when the occupiers began the first war in the Gaza Strip, followed by the assassination of Said Siyam, the founder of Hamas’s police, and Nizar Rayyan, two prominent Hamas leaders in Gaza, at the beginning of 2009.The movement then faced similar conditions, and in 2010, Mossad assassinated Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, one of Hamas’s prominent leaders, in the UAE, putting Hamas in a complex phase of its relationship with the UAE.In 2012, the occupation returned to its methods when it assassinated Ahmed al-Jabari, the second-in-command of the al-Qassam Brigades, leading to the second war in Gaza, which ended in a ceasefire. In the 2014 Gaza war, there was a campaign of assassinations, with the martyrdom of senior al-Qassam Brigades Military Council members, Raed al-Attar and Mohammad Abu Shamaleh. However, the assassination attempt on Muhammad Deif failed, although his wife and child were martyred