Amid its ongoing air and ground campaign in Gaza, renewed after the collapse of the ceasefire with Hamas earlier this month, Israel has conducted a string of assassinations of Hamas top leadership. Hamas commander Ismail Barhoum was widely dubbed the ‘Prime Minister of Gaza’ and was killed Sunday night amid expanded airstrikes across the Strip. Israel’s military (IDF) said a ‘precision strike’ took him out at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis. An Israeli statement called him “key Hamas terrorist” – and the Palestinian group has since confirmed his death. At the time of the strike on the hospital wing, Barhoum had been undergoing treatment for injuries sustained in a previous airstrike. Israeli media had tallied that since last Tuesday, he’s the fourth member of Hamas’s political bureau to have been killed. Prime Minister Netanyahu has vowed to wipe out Hamas, and ensure it can never control Gaza again. According to the Times of Israel, “Out of the 20 members of Hamas’s political bureau elected in 2021, 11 have been assassinated during the war in Gaza. Seven are either certain or highly likely to be outside the Gaza Strip.” The war which has been going on since the Hamas terror attack of Oct.7, 2023 has claimed hundreds […]