Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said yesterday evening, Wednesday, that his country will work to eliminate the leaders of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Ismail Haniyeh and Khaled Meshal.
Cohen told Israeli Channel 13, “We will work to eliminate Mashal and Haniyeh, as they will not die a natural death.”
Haniyeh is the head of the political bureau of the Hamas movement, while Meshaal is the head of the movement abroad.
In a separate context, Cohen pointed out that “it is wrong to replace a foreign minister during a war.”
The Israeli channel indicated that there is talk of replacing him with Energy Minister Yisrael Katz, with him in return assuming the energy portfolio.
Cohen said, “The responsible person is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who did not speak to me about this issue, and if the Prime Minister asks me to do so, I will do so.”
Cohen claimed that he did not ask Netanyahu to keep him in his position, in which he has served since the formation of the government at the end of last year.
Since last October 7, the Israeli army has been waging a devastating war on Gaza that, as of last Wednesday evening, left 26,000 dead and missing – most of them children and women – massive destruction of infrastructure and an “unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe.”
