{"id":504894,"date":"2021-05-13T16:20:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T20:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=504894"},"modified":"2021-05-13T16:20:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T20:20:53","slug":"idf-kills-top-hamas-commander-bassem-issa-highest-ranking-terrorist-killed-in-seven-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/idf-kills-top-hamas-commander-bassem-issa-highest-ranking-terrorist-killed-in-seven-years\/","title":{"rendered":"IDF Kills Top Hamas Commander Bassem Issa, Highest-Ranking Terrorist Killed In Seven Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fidf-kills-top-hamas-commander-bassem-issa-highest-ranking-terrorist-killed-in-seven-years%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=504894&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Gaza.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Israel killed a member of the Hamas military council, Bassem Issa, Wednesday as the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) continue to hammer the violent terror group.<\/p>\n<p>Israel claimed, and Hamas confirmed, that the IDF had killed Issa and a handful of other senior Hamas militants in an air strike Wednesday, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/the-latest-netanyahu-raps-anarchy-of-jewish-arab-fighting\/600056240\/\">Associated Press<\/a>. Hamas\u2019 admission is the first time that the terror group has confirmed the death of any of its officers in the current bout of violence.<\/p>\n<p>The military council on which Bassem sat directs all military action taken by the terror group and is headed by Mohammed Deif. Bassem is the highest ranking Hamas militant to be killed in Israel since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Issa and \u201cother leaders and holy warriors\u201d died in the air strike, Hamas said in a statement. \u201cThe confrontation with the enemy is open-ended,\u201d it continued, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/35-killed-gaza-3-israel-violence-escalates-2021-05-12\/\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli airstrikes have taken out a number of top militants in Hamas. On Tuesday, the IDF killed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-israel-kills-hamas-commander-iyad-fathi-faik-sharir-idf-says\">Iyad Fathi Faik Sharir<\/a>, the commander of Hamas\u2019 anti-tank missile unit, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/israeli-military-trolls-hamas-after-killing-their-top-intel-officers-looks-like-our-intel-was-better\">Hassan Kaogi<\/a>, who led the terror groups military intelligence security department.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas initiated the current conflict earlier this week, launching dozens of rockets aimed at Israeli neighborhoods. Militants have sent hundreds of rockets into densely populated areas of Israel such as Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, endangering hundreds of thousands of Jewish and Arab Israelis.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s Iron Dome, a missile defense system, blows up most rockets midair, but some occasionally get past the system. In one case, a Hamas rocket\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-school-hit-after-palestinian-terrorists-fire-130-rockets-at-israel-in-under-5-minutes\">hit<\/a>\u00a0a school, injuring three Israelis. Authorities had earlier ordered the school evacuated due to the Hamas attacks and the school\u2019s position within 25 miles of the Gaza border.<\/p>\n<p>Naftali Bennett, a member of Israel\u2019s Knesset and head of the Yamina party, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/top-israeli-official-hamas-can-surrender-or-well-hunt-down-every-commander-every-post-until-we-win\">issued<\/a> a clear ultimatum to Hamas militants on Wednesday: surrender or die.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s up to Hamas as long as Hamas keeps [attacking Israel] in order to murder Israelis across the state \u2014 by the way, Arabs and Jews alike,\u201d Bennett said during an interview on the Arabic news channel Al Jazeera. \u201cHamas already murdered two Arab Israelis in the city of Lod, a dad, 52 years old, and his daughter Nadin, 16 years old, Israeli Arabs who were murdered. A Holocaust survivor, 85 years old, was murdered by Hamas, in her wheelchair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Hamas thinks they can get away with this, they\u2019re wrong. We\u2019ll hunt down every commander, every post, until we win,\u201d Bennett said.<\/p>\n<p>Bennett said the Hamas militants were \u201cstupid and wrong\u201d to attack Israel, spending aid money on building rockets rather than providing for their own people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of taking its money and investing in hospitals, in schools, in building a future for its people, [Hamas is] spending all its money on terror, on trying to kill Israelis. It\u2019s both stupid and wrong. It\u2019s stupid because they are not going to succeed because we\u2019re strong and we are going to defend ourselves. And, you know, I am in the position now, but make no mistake, we are all united, we stand strong united. And there\u2019s one way for this to stop: For Hamas to lay down its arms. And then, it\u2019ll stop,\u201d Bennett said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/three-times-the-palestinians-turned-down-a-deal-for-statehood\">Three Times The Palestinians Turned Down A Deal For Statehood<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel killed a member of the Hamas military council, Bassem Issa, Wednesday as the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) continue to hammer the violent terror group.Israel claimed, and Hamas confirmed, that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278088,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Gaza.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"IDF Kills Top Hamas Commander Bassem Issa, Highest-Ranking Terrorist Killed In Seven Years","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Gaza.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"IDF Kills Top Hamas Commander Bassem Issa, Highest-Ranking Terrorist Killed In Seven Years","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}