All Eyes Are Now on Iran and Lebanon, While in Gaza, the IDF Keeps Working

The nightly news, and social media, are full of stories on the latest on-again-off-again American negotiations with the Islamic Republic of Iran, and stories, too, about Israel under American pressure agreeing to a ceasefire with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Gaza has been much less in the news, but for the IDF, Gaza has not been forgotten, as the latest reports from the Strip make clear. More on the IDF’s most recent “mowing the lawn” in Gaza, with help from the Shin Bet’s Arab assets inside Gaza, can be found here: “IDF, Shin Bet kill several Hamas General Security Apparatus officials in Gaza,” Jerusalem Post, June 4, 2026:

The IDF and Shin Bet (Israeli Security Agency) struck and killed several senior members of Hamas’ General Security Apparatus in the Gaza Strip overnight, a clandestine group which is responsible for protecting and assisting Hamas leadership.

The General Security Apparatus’ responsibilities include maintaining communication and coordination between Hamas leaders, protecting them and escorting them to emergency facilities, and collecting intelligence and guiding the leadership in decision-making….

The General Security Apparatus is in charge of protecting Hamas leaders from attack, helping them to communicate safely with each other, and providing intelligence to those leaders that will enable them to make well-informed decisions. Their record is not impressive. The last four leaders of Hamas were killed one after the other. The Shin Bet appears to have penetrated the ranks of the GSA with its Arab agents, and knows exactly where its own senior officials are hiding, when and how they change dwellings, and when they come out into the open.

“The senior members of the General Security Apparatus were eliminated in order to remove an immediate threat, after recently engaging in efforts to rebuild the Hamas terrorist organization and assisting its leadership in advancing terrorist activity against the State of Israel and IDF troops,” the IDF said.

The IDF also stated that, prior to the strikes, steps had been taken to reduce and mitigate the potential threat to civilians, including through the use of precision munitions and aerial surveillance.

The IDF certainly kept civilian casualties to a minimum. A total of ten people were killed, four of them the senior leaders of the GSA, while four of the other six casualties are almost certainly to have been their wives in the four apartments that were struck before dawn; the remaining two dead were possibly their children. That is what precision bombing can accomplish.

In Gaza, Hamas is again licking its wounds, counting its dead, and wondering who in the terror group the relentless IDF will eliminate next, with the aid of Palestinian Arab informants in the Strip. Trump may call Netanyahu “f**king crazy,” but that is not how they think of Netanyahu in Gaza. They are terrified.

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