Meir approved what became known as 'Operation Wrath of God,' a targeted assassination campaign that sent the Mossad's top unit to hunt down every terrorist involved in the Munich Olympics attack.
In mid-September 1972, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir convened a secret meeting of cabinet ministers and security officials. Days earlier, 11 Israeli athletes had been murdered on the sidelines of the Olympic games in Munich by Black September, a notorious Palestinian terrorist group.
While Israel has had some success in eliminating mid-level Hamas commanders—the head of Hamas's aerial forces and the head of its naval forces were killed a few days ago—a significant number of Hamas commanders are likely to still be alive when this war is officially over, either in Gaza or in other places throughout the world.
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