A damaged building, following an Israeli attack on Hamas leaders
A damaged building, following an Israeli attack on Hamas leaders, according to an Israeli official, in Doha, Qatar, September 9, 2025.(Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters)

“As of now, we have no confirmation of the success of the elimination regarding any [of] the senior Hamas terrorists attending the meeting in Doha,” an Israeli official told the Jerusalem Post on Wednesday. “Things don't look good.”

The Israeli government has yet to confirm or deny Hamas’s claim that, while five of its members were killed in an attack on their Qatar-based safe house, the senior leaders Israel targeted on Tuesday survived.

If Hamas’s terror chiefs escaped, thwarting Israeli intelligence in ways Hezbollah and the Houthis could not, it’s reasonable to wonder if there was a weak link in the chain ...

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