Monday, October 7, 2024

Report: Senior Hamas officials fled Lebanon and Iran, fearing elimination

Senior Hamas officials are leaving Iran and Lebanon over fears of being eliminated, in the wake of the eliminations of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and former head of Hamas’ political bureau Ismail Haniyeh, Channel 13 News reported on Sunday.

According to the report, which is based on Palestinian Arab sources, the senior officials have fled to other countries that are friendly to the terrorist organization, including Qatar and Turkey.

The sources also commented on the question of the elimination of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and said that contact with him has been cut off, but it is increasingly believed that he was not eliminated.

Other sources commented on the number of dead in the Gaza Strip in the past year and stated that 80 percent of the dead were Hamas terrorists and their families.

The report follows the elimination of Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah in an air strike in Beirut last week, along with other senior Hezbollah officials.

Before that, the head of the political bureau of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, was eliminated while in Tehran for the funeral of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a plane crash.

Channel 12 News reported last week that there are increasing estimates that Nasrallah died as a result of suffocation, in great agony. 

It was also reported that, since he was in a place without ventilation, the Air Force bombings resulted in gasses entering the room, causing him to suffocate to death.