Israel said checking to see if Hamas leadership was even in building it struck in Doha

As the Israeli security establishment increasingly believes that none of Hamas’s leadership was killed in the Tuesday IDF strike in Doha, it has begun checking whether the terror group’s top brass was even in the building that was targeted, Channel 12 reports.

The other possibility still being examined is that the Hamas leaders were in a different part of the building than the section that was hit directly.

The security establishment believes that one or two Hamas leaders may have been injured — potentially Khalil al-Hayya among them. This could explain Hamas’s decision not to release a photo of him in its statement earlier today announcing that he is still alive.

Another scenario being checked is whether the Hamas leaders managed to get a heads-up at the last minute, which enabled them to escape ahead of time, though that would mean that top officials like Hayya didn’t alert his son Hammam, who was killed in the strike.