IDF chief: Strike on Hamas leaders shows Israel will ‘settle accounts with our enemies’ anywhere in world

By Emanuel Fabian

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9 September 2025, 8:42 pm

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Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir speaks on a phone at the Israeli Air Force underground command center, September 9, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

While authorizing the strike on Hamas’s leadership in Qatar, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir says Israel will “settle accounts with our enemies” anywhere in the world.

“These are the terrorists whose only aspiration was to be the spearhead for the destruction of the State of Israel. We will continue to carry out this mission everywhere, at any range, near and far, in order to settle accounts with our enemies,” he says to the Israeli Air Force pilots who set out to carry out the strike, according to remarks published by the IDF.

“We are settling a moral and ethical account on behalf of all the victims of October 7. We will not rest and we will not be silent until we bring back our hostages and defeat Hamas,” Zamir adds.