“Wherever they are”
Mossad promises “settlement” with masterminds on October 7th
January 3, 2024, 5:57 p.m
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After the Hamas massacre on October 7th, the Israeli secret service is seeking revenge. According to Mossad chief David Barnea, those responsible for the terrorist attack will be dealt with. The intelligence officer said this just one day after the killing of Hamas deputy chief Saleh al-Aruri in Lebanon.
The head of the Israeli secret service Mossad has threatened retaliation against all planners and masterminds involved in the October 7 Hamas attack. Israel is “in the middle of war,” said David Barnea in Jerusalem. The Mossad is committed to “settling accounts with the murderers who came from the border of the Gaza Strip on October 7th, with the planners and their clients.”
This reckoning will “take time, just like after the massacre in Munich, but we will take them wherever they are,” said Barnea. “Every Arab mother should know that if her son participated directly or indirectly in the October 7 slaughter, blood will come on his head,” the intelligence chief threatened, quoting a verse from the Book of Joshua.
Barnea made the comments at the funeral of former Mossad chief Zvi Zamir. He led the “Wrath of God” mission. The aim was to track down and kill those responsible for the 1972 Munich Olympic attack. A Palestinian commando killed eleven Israeli athletes at the sporting event.
Barnea made his threat of retaliation just one day after the killing of Hamas deputy chief Saleh al-Aruri in Lebanon. The drone strike in a southern suburb of Beirut that left al-Aruri dead along with his bodyguards on Tuesday has been attributed to Israel. However, the Israeli authorities did not comment on this.
Israel and the radical Islamic Palestinian organization Hamas, which rules in the Gaza Strip, have been at war for almost three months. After the Hamas attack on October 7th, in which, according to Israel, around 1,140 people were killed and around 250 others were taken hostage in the Gaza Strip, Israel announced the destruction of Hamas and the killing of its leaders.
Al-Aruri, whom Israel blames for planning numerous attacks, was elected deputy to Hamas Politburo chief Ismail Haniya in 2017. This officially made him the number two Islamist terrorist organization.