Israel Has Continued Its Assassination Campaign in Gaza Despite the Ceasefire

News report by Tareq S. Hajjaj for Mondoweiss documenting that Israel continued a systematic assassination campaign targeting Palestinian resistance leaders in Gaza since the October 10, 2025, ceasefire, including the killing of Raed Saad, a senior Qassam Brigades commander and head of weapons production, on December 13, 2025. Contacts within the resistance told Mondoweiss that Israel is using the assassinations to try to provoke Palestinian factions into direct confrontation, thereby giving Israel a pretext to avoid fulfilling its ceasefire obligations. The report documents a pattern of targeted killings across multiple resistance organizations since the ceasefire. Recommended for researchers studying the assassination dimension of Israeli ceasefire violations, with Mondoweiss' direct sourcing from within Palestinian resistance factions providing important reporting on the deliberate strategy behind the killings.