A history of assassination reveals how ‘targeted killings’ became an extension of state power
In November 2012, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) took to Twitter – as it was then – to announce it had killed Ahmed al-Jabari, chief of the al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing in Gaza. The announcement, with a hotlink to a grainy video of the air strike on al-Jabari’s car,…
bubmagFebruary 16, 2026