Hamas ups threats against ‘collaborators’

Channel 2 analyst Ehud Ya’ari says that in light of Israel’s targeting of Hamas leader Muhammad Deif, the Hamas leadership has issued threats to execute collaborators, after presumably some have tipped off Israel as to Deif’s location.

With regard to whether Deif is alive or dead, Ya’ari says: “We don’t know that he’s not dead.”

The Israeli airstrike and the use of bunker buster bombs is an indication that Israel had precise intelligence on Deif’s whereabouts, he says, and if he was home — though it remains unclear whether he was — it’s likely he didn’t survive.

The TV station’s military correspondent Roni Daniel stresses that Deif takes orders from Khaled Mashaal, the Hamas politburo head residing in Qatar who has been calling the shots throughout the Gaza campaign.