IN RECENT times, Israel’s geopolitical calculus has taken even more aggressive steps and strategies, executing the high-profile assassinations of Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar and Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah. These killings are part of a broader strategy rooted in Israel’s longstanding policy of targeted assassinations — once covert but now increasingly overt — aimed at killing leaderships that pose a threat to its ‘security’. While Israel’s official stance justifies these operations as necessary measures to combat terrorism, the co