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IDF avoiding killing certain Hamas officials in Gaza over fear of civil order collapse

Military sources confirmed to Walla that the decision not to target Hamas municipal officials stems from a concern that killing them could lead to the collapse of governing institutions in Gaza.

NOVEMBER 1, 2026|ByAMIR BOHBOT

A HAMAS terrorist stands on a street during Eid al-Fitr in Gaza City.

Palestinians view the damage after Israeli forces withdrew from the area around Kamal Adwan hospital, amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, in Jabalya, in the northern Gaza Strip October 26, 2024.

IDF: Hamas using northern Gaza hospital as operational center, medical staff as human shields

The Israeli military said footage released from Kamal Adwan Hospital on Sunday shows Hamas is still exploiting the presence of patients, medical staff, and civilians as human shields.

OCTOBER 11, 2026|ByTOBIAS HOLCMAN

Picture of Hamas terrorists killed by the IDF on Friday, October 2.

IDF kills Hamas commander who infiltrated Israel on Oct. 7, arrests weapons smugglers in Nablus

Ibrahim Mustafa Suleiman Abu Oweimer, a commander in Hamas's military wing, was killed in a joint operation by the IDF and the Shin Bet.

OCTOBER 5, 2026|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

A terrorist from the Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, gestures inside an underground tunnel in Gaza.

IDF killed two-thirds of terrorists who invaded Israel on October 7, intel chief tells cabinet

"There are 2,000 remaining, and we will get to every last one of them," Maj.-Gen. Shlomi Binder, head of the IDF's Military Intelligence, told the security cabinet on Sunday evening.

OCTOBER 5, 2026|ByAMICHAI STEIN

In first round of Gaza face off, both sides test the limits

Both sides can be satisfied: Israel prevented a border breach, while Hamas showed off its power to rally the people of Gaza.

APRIL 1, 2018ByALON BEN-DAVID

Palestinians take cover from Israeli snipers during clashes at the Gaza-Israel border at a protest in the southern Gaza Strip March 31, 2018

17 dead, over a thousand injured after Palestinians clash with IDF on Gaza border

20,000 men, women and children attended Friday's Land Day protests.

MARCH 30, 2018ByJPOST.COM STAFF

A wounded Palestinian woman is evacuated during clashes with Israeli troops, during a tent city protest along the Israel border with Gaza, demanding the right to return to their homeland, the southern Gaza Strip March 30, 2018.

Qatar says Gaza aid spares Israel war, shows Doha does not back Hamas

"If we are helping Hamas, do you think the Israelis (would) allow us to go inside and come out?"

FEBRUARY 22, 2018ByREUTERS

Palestinains take part in a protest against aid cuts, outside the United Nations’ offices in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.

Report: Hamas believes war with Israel will break out in the coming days

The report claims a potential war would involve Israeli combat units across ground, naval and air forces.

FEBRUARY 4, 2018ByJULIANE HELMHOLD, AVRAHAM GOLD

A Palestinian boy plays at a house that witnesses said was destroyed during Operation Protective Edge in the east of Gaza City

Gazan family executes relative suspected of collaborating with Israel

Hamas praised the killing as illustrating the family's "nobleness and deep affiliation with the (anti-Israel) resistance."

JANUARY 19, 2018ByADAM RASGON

Smoke rises following what witnesses said was an Israeli air strike in Gaza August 21, 2014.

Spokesman: Senior Hamas official shot in the head

Imad al-Alami is in critical condition.

JANUARY 9, 2018ByADAM RASGON

Imad al-Alami, talks to journalists at a press conference held in the southern suburbs of Beirut in 1999.

Hamas, PA unity appears to founder

On Tuesday afternoon, for the first time in more than 10 years, the Ramallah-based PA ordered all of its Gaza-based employees to return to work in ministries and government bodies.

NOVEMBER 30, 2017ByADAM RASGON