The current Israeli strategy of targeted assassinations of Hamas commanders and terrorists involved in the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks “will not lead to the elimination of the organization,” a source close to the Board of Peace (BoP) says. “The government's policy is targeted assassinations, while leaving Hamas with its army and its rule,” the BoP source told i24 News’ Hebrew edition. “The Board of Peace wants the complete dismantling and elimination of Hamas.
Israel is eliminating individual Hamas members, but not Hamas itself,” the source claimed. The remarks come amid a lack of progress in the Gaza Peace Plan put forward by U.S. President Donald Trump, who is also the chairman of the BoP. The BoP announced in July that Hamas had agreed to disarm, but Hamas has claimed that such disarmament is conditional on the full withdrawal of the IDF from the Gaza Strip.
Israel maintains that the original peace agreement calls for the full IDF withdrawal only after the disarmament of Hamas, and together with the entry of the International Stabilization Force (ISF), which is not yet ready to take on the role of policing the Gaza Strip. In the meantime, as the two sides remain firm in their positions, the IDF has continued carrying out targeted assassinations of Hamas commanders and terrorists involved in the Oct.
7, 2023, Hamas invasion of southern Israel. Notices of such killings have been released by the IDF on a near-daily basis over the past couple of weeks, despite a request by the U.S. to only strike in the event of imminent danger. The Israeli government says it is keeping its promise to bring all the terrorists involved in the Oct. 7 attacks to justice.
The IDF does also frequently claim that some of the terrorists are actively involved in plans