Israeli campaign to kill Hamas leaders likely to backfire, say earlier assassination targets

‘It made us fight more,’ says one former Fatah intelligence chief, among those warning strategy could prove counterproductive

A worldwide campaign of assassinations of Hamas leaders announced by senior Israel officials is likely to be counterproductive, impractical and ineffective, targets of previous such efforts have suggested.

Benjamin Netanyahu first announced the new strategy two weeks after the 7 October attacks launched by Hamas into southern Israel which killed 1,200 people.