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In the early morning hours of October 7, Hamas militants launched an attack on Israel. They fired several thousand rockets, but their fighters entered Israel, where they carried out terrible massacres in various kibbutzim and settlements.
Hamas was supported in the action by the Lebanese Hezbollah, as well as their 'little brother', the Palestinian Islamic Jihad organization, but the main responsibility still rests with Hamas. .
Most of their leaders shun the public for fear of Israeli assassinations. Many of them do not live in Gaza or the West Bank, but in 'friendly' countries from where they plan and organize such actions.
Ismail Haniyeh
He is considered the leader of Hamas. In the late 1980s he ended up in an Israeli prison for three years because of his activities, he was later expelled from the territory of Israel, but he returned to the Gaza Strip in 1993 and there began his rise.
He rose through the ranks of Hamas and in 2006 became prime minister of Palestine, so a circus ensued where he refused to resign. And in 2018 he became the head of the political department of Hamas. He is on the US terrorist list and, as the BBC writes, he has been living in Qatar for five years.
"We will never recognize the Zionist government and we will continue our jihad until the liberation of Jerusalem," said Haniyeh at the time, who condemned the US action that killed Osama bin Laden.
He is married and is the father of 13 children. It is also said to weigh several million dollars.
Yahya Sinwar
Sinar is the founder of Hamas' security and intelligence service called Majd, which is responsible for the counterintelligence war with Israel, the BBC writes.
He spent up to 24 years in Israeli prisons, was sentenced to four life sentences, but was released in 2011 in a major prisoner swap.
He is on the US terror list and is considered the second most powerful figure in Hamas. The Israeli military says he is the 'dead man walking' after Hamas attacked Israel.
"He decided to send his butchers to Israel to kill our children. They signed their death. He is the walking dead," said Israeli army official Peter Lerne, writes NBC.
According to the BBC, he is actually the "boss" of the Gaza Strip and succeeds on the ground, while Haniyeh from Qatar. He is suspected of hiding in underground tunnels under the Gaza Strip.
Mohammed Deif
Deif is the leader of the military 'branch' of Hamas. He has survived so many Israeli attacks that he is called the cat with nine lives.
He too has been in Israeli prisons several times. It is considered one of the most responsible for the tunnels under the Gaza Strip where Hamas hides weapons and fighters.
In the assassination in 2002, he lost an eye, allegedly part of an arm and a leg, and in 2014, he lost his wife and two children in an attack by Israelis.
After the attack by Hamas, he through a recorded message announced the beginning of the military operation, called the Palestinians to revolution.
"In the wake of ongoing crimes against our people, in light of the occupation and denial of international laws and resolutions, and in light of American and Western support, we decided to put an end to it all," he said plainly.
Few people know him, his family and a small group of Hamas. He has been one of Israel's most wanted men for decades, but no one knows where he is.
Marwan Issa
He goes by the nicknames 'man from the shadows' and 'Deif's right-hand man' and until 2011, no one except his closest associates in Hamas knew what he looked like.
He is on Israel's most wanted list and has also survived several assassination attempts. He was also imprisoned for participating in the terrorist activities of Hamas. Very little is known about him, but he is considered key to the planning of several attacks on Israel, including this latest one.
Khaled Meshaal
According to the BBC, Meshaal is one of the founders of Hamas. The British media write that the Mossad, with the direct instructions of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, tried to kill him in 1997 while he was living in Jordan.
Mossad agents managed to "insert" a poisonous substance into him while he was walking down the street, but Jordanian authorities discovered and arrested the two agents. Under pressure from Bill Clinton and at King Hussein's request, Israel sent the antidote.
Mahmoud Zahar
Mahmoud Zahar was born in Gaza in 1945 to a Palestinian father and an Egyptian mother. He is considered one of the most prominent leaders of Hamas and a member of the movement's political leadership.
He went to school in Gaza and university in Cairo, then worked as a doctor in Gaza and Khan Younis until the Israeli authorities fired him because of his political position.
Mahmoud Zahar was held in Israeli prisons in 1988, months after the founding of Hamas. He was among those deported from Israel to no man's land in 1992, where he spent a year.
With the victory of the Hamas movement in the Palestinian general elections in 2006, Zahar joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the newly formed government of Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, before his eventual dismissal.
Israel tried to kill Zahar in 2003, when a plane dropped a bomb on his home in Gaza City. The attack left him with minor injuries but killed his eldest son, Khaled.
His second son, Hossam, who was a member of the al-Qassam Brigades, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza in 2008. / BBC
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