Israeli Minister Says Hamas Commander is 'A Dead Man' — But So Far Israel Has Proven Better At Killing Women and Children

Yair Lapid. (Photo by Maryland GovPics)

Israel's finance minister claims that “the courage, heroism, and camaraderie shown by IDF soldiers is truly amazing" — even though the vast majority of people they've killed are civilians.


By JPOST.COM STAFF
One day after Mohammed Deif, the commander of Hamas’s military wing, was heard vowing that “victory will be ours,” Finance Minister Yair Lapid told reporters on Wednesday that Deif “is a dead man.”

“For years, Mohammed Deif has been hiding in the tunnels underneath Gaza, and that is where he will remain because he’s a dead man,” Lapid said.


Deif, one of the most wanted terrorists by Israel, which has tried to kill him at least four times but failed, was heard in a recording on Tuesday as saying that Hamas was “winning the war.”

Lapid said that Deif’s remarks were reminiscent of propaganda disseminated by the Iraqi government on the eve of the fall of Saddam Hussein.

“The Iraqi information minister continued to claim that they were defeating the United States, until one day he disappeared,” he said. "[Deif] knows that sooner or later, we are going to find him and kill him.”

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