Israeli Official Tells Hamas to Stop Attacking, Threatens Further Action as Top Hamas Commander Killed

Israeli Official Tells Hamas to Stop Attacking, Threatens Further Action as Top Hamas Commander Killed
A photograph shows rockets launched towards Israel from the northern Gaza Strip in Gaza City, Gaza, on May 14, 2021. Fatima Shbair/Getty Images
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An Israeli official said on Wednesday that Hamas, the Islamist terrorist group that rules Gaza, should stop attacking Israel or risk complete destruction of its top leaders.

The comments come on the same day that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) carried out an airstrike that killed Hamas’s top military official in Gaza, Bassem Issa, as well as other top Hamas leaders. Issa is the highest-ranking Hamas military figure to be killed by Israel since the 2014 war in Gaza.
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