Doha/Tel Aviv, Sept. 9 -- The Israel Defense Forces and the Shin Bet, Israel's counter-intelligence agency, on Tuesday confirmed an attack on the Hamas leadership in Doha, Qatar.
An IDF statement said that the leaders targeted were responsible for the October 7, 2023, massacre of around 1,200 Israelis in Israel's South, as well as managing the terror group's operations for years before that.
Hamas leaders Khaled Mashal, Nizar Awadallah and Zaher Jabarin were the three Hamas leaders who were among five senior officials who attended a meeting that was targeted in the Israeli airstrike in Doha.
Khalil al-Hayya, the leader of Hamas, was one of the targets of the operations, an Israeli official confirmed to The Jerusalem Post. However, his de...