Haaretz: The assassination of Haniyeh’s children increases the popularity of Hamas

Palestinians see this assassination as an act of revenge, not an effective military action to shake the depth of Hamas’s power and destroy its balance. This is a part of today’s editorial of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz about the assassination of three children of the head of the political bureau of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, and several of his grandchildren.

In the continuation of the editorial of this Hebrew newspaper, it is stated that with the assassination of Haniyeh’s children in Gaza, Hamas will not change its position during the negotiations, just as military pressure did not lead to the release of Israeli prisoners in the Gaza Strip.

According to Haaretz analysis, this terror operation will strengthen the position of Hamas and Haniyeh in Palestine and will gain more popular support.

In the continuation of this note, it is stated that with this assassination, Israel’s claims and provocations against Hamas leaders and their families abroad were rejected, and Haniyeh’s message after the martyrdom of a number of his children and grandchildren, was very telling when he emphasized that his children also They are part of the Palestinian people and Hamas is a popular movement.

The head of the political office of Hamas last night in a conversation with al-Mayadeen firmly stated that the assassination of his children and grandchildren will not force Hamas to change its position in the negotiations, and that the Palestinian resistance adheres to its terms in the negotiations, and without their fulfillment, there will be no exchange of prisoners. does not take

The Zionist regime assassinated three of Ismail Haniyeh’s sons, Hazem, Amir, and Mohammad, his grandchildren, Khaled, Mona, Amal, and Razan, on Wednesday evening at the same time as Eid al-Fitr, by targeting their car in Gaza.

In another part of the Ha’aretz editorial, it is pointed out the confusion among the security and military apparatuses and the political levels of Israel to carry out the assassination of Haniyeh’s children, and it is stated that if this matter is true, even the commander of the southern region and the chief of the general staff of the army He did not know about this operation and the person who authorized the attack is the “commander of the fire station of the southern region with the rank of colonel”, the level of trust in these institutions will decrease.

The author goes on to write that whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was involved in the operation or not, it does not matter, this operation is another sign of his shortcomings and the danger that the continuation of his rotten government poses to the lives of Israeli prisoners.

At the end of the Haaretz editorial, it is stated that if the Israeli settlers do not come out in large numbers and do not ask those responsible for the October 7 tragedy to step down, the future of Israel will be in real danger, just like the fate of the Israeli prisoners inside the Gaza Strip.

Source: Fars