hamas' political leader, ismail haniyeh, was assassinated in tehran injuly.ut 3,000 fighters across the border and launched about 5,000 rockets. in all, the armed group and political movement was estimated to have about 30,000 fighters, hidden in hundreds of tunnels across gaza. but after 15 months of war, israel says it is a shadow of its former self. hamas has been decimated. their leadership has been eliminated. their rocket arsenal has been destroyed. their tunnel network has been compromised. their operational capabilities have been shattered. they are no longer the force they once were. certainly, many senior figures have been killed. hamas' political leader, ismail haniyeh, was assassinated in tehran injuly. its main commander in gaza, yahya sinwar, was killed in october. the numbers are hard to verify but israel claimed in september to have killed 17,000 hamas fighters. for all that, the americans believe the group could still come back. each time israel completes its military operations and pulls back, hamas militants regroup and re—emerge, because t

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hamas's political leader, ismail haniyeh, was assassinated in tehran injuly. gaza, yahya sinwar, was killed in october. the numbers are hard to verify, but israel claimed in september to have killed 17,000 hamas fighters. for all that, the americans believe the group could still come back. each time israel completes its military operations and pulls back, hamas militants regroup and re—emerge, because there's nothing else to fill the void. indeed, we assess that hamas has recruited almost as many new militants as it has lost. those new recruits may have fewer tunnels to hide in, they may get fewer weapons from a weakened iran, and they may be younger and more inexperienced than the trained fighters they are replacing — but they can still fight. they still have small groups in some different areas who could fight israel for a very long time, because they work like a militia now, not like before 7 october, as a semi—army in gaza. so hamas is weakened. its ability to mount sustained military operations much reduced. but it hasn't been destroyed — something israel

hamas' political leader, ismail haniyeh, was assassinated in tehran in july.mmander in gaza, yahya sinwar, was killed in october. the numbers are hard to verify but israel claimed in september to have killed 17,000 hamas fighters. for all that, the americans believe the group could still come back. each time israel completes its military operations and pulls back, hamas militants regroup and re—emerge, because there's nothing else to fill the void. indeed, we assess that hamas has recruited almost as many new militants as it has lost. those new recruits may have fewer tunnels to hide in, they may get fewer weapons from a weakened iran, and they may be younger and more inexperienced than the trained fighters they are replacing, but they can still fight. they still have small groups in some different areas who could fight israel for a very long time, because they work like a militia now, not like before the 7th of october, as a semi—army in gaza. so hamas is weakened. its ability to mount a sustained military operation is much reduced. but it hasn't been destroy

atmosphere in iran right now is that probably many top iranian politicians feel unsafe after ismail haniyehd in iran. the hamas leader, just one day after the iranian president's inauguration, he was targeted and killed in tehran. and then you see, after that, hassan nasrallah was targeted by israelis. and now two top iranian supreme courts have been assassinated in iran, that one former iranian intelligence minister once said that the level of infiltration by the israeli agents is so high up the level of iranian intelligence apparatus that all iranian officials should be scared for their lives. let's speak to our correspondent in jerusalem, jon donnison. welcome. take us through how we expect events to unfold there tomorrow if the ceasefire does go ahead at 8:30am local time. it is going to start at 8:30am local time, it is going to start at 8:30am localtime, 6:30am it is going to start at 8:30am local time, 6:30am gmt tomorrow. then we will see the ceasefire in place and we will see it soon after that the first three israeli hostages should be freed by hamas. they will be handed over to t

ismail haniyeh, who who was then the leader who as we was brutally murdered by the israelis on july first, he said he doesn't want to to hamas to rule on its he wants to have a national government that has been attitude throughout that they want to be politically in and to be politically in included in. you know, whatever negotiations going on, there's a lot to work with. the other thing is that hamas is not just in gaza. hamas is in the west bank, hamas is in the prisons hamas actually is wherever there are palestinians specifically in you, jordan and lebanon and syria and the gulf as there are other palestinian political trends you know, fatah still has the popular front for, the liberation of palestine has supporters. but if you're talking about the situation in gaza or the west bank today, they have joint operations, movements, sorry, joint operations rooms between the activist members of all of these organizations. so the situation is much more complex than what, you know, if if we're like a some ill informed senator up here and say, you know well, just got to support israel as. they

. >> the palestinian militant group hamas has said its political leader, ismail haniyeh, has been killed in iran. >> iranian ballistic missiles slamming down one after another near an israeli air base. israel says its air defenses taking out most of the incoming missiles. >> missiles fired by the houthis, a yemeni rebel group backed by iran, lit up the marlin luanda tanker ship. >> iranian backed houthi militias, showing no sign of backing down, attacking two more ships in the red sea with six missiles. >> thousands gathered to cheer the end of syrian dictator bashar al-assad. the 54 year tyrannical reign dissolve in a week's time. >> ambassador ross, speak to some of how that fits into this breakthrough today. >> i think the fact that hamas increasingly understood that the original reasons for launching this were based on an expectation that hezbollah would join in, that the west bank would explode, that israeli arabs would rise up, that the iranians would be supportive throughout. you know, the iranians have what they call the axis of resistance. i referred to it before. well, that axi