The IDF listed over a quarter of Hamas officials, including top official Ismail Haniyeh, as operating outside Gaza, including in Iran, Qatar, Lebanon, and Turkey.
Who of Hamas's top branch live outside Gaza - and why?
Haniyeh, who met with Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday, is head of Hamas's political bureau, which operates from the Qatari capital of Doha.
The Hamas leadership's responsibilities abroad are divided into three sectors - the West Bank, the Strip, and foreign affairs. The Intelligence Directorate said that "it is working nonstop to understand, map and locate" the leaders.
Some of Hamas's foreign affairs chiefs operate outside in various countries that do not have an official Hamas presence, fundraising and directing terror, the IDF reported. READ MORE