Over a month after Israel’s failed attempt to assassinate senior Hamas officials in Doha, new details have emerged in Turkish media about the top-level Hamas meeting in Doha, the six waves of airstrikes, and the Hamas terrorists’ narrow escape, Ynet reported.

According to reports by Turkey’s TRT and Yeni Şafak, Israel launched six attacks, each involving two missiles, roughly 15 hours after U.S. President Donald Trump submitted his final proposal for a hostage deal. According to Hamas’s internal probe, the son of Khalil al-Hayya—the head of Hamas’s negotiating team—changed the meeting location at the last minute, saving the group’s leadership. The son, Maam al-Hayya, was killed in the strike.

Hamas negotiators received Trump’s proposal at 1 a.m. the day before the attack and scheduled a meeting for 2 p.m. that afternoon. The officials gathered at a compound serving as Hamas’s headquarters, arriving in disguise under strict security measures. Earlier that morning, Maam al-Hayya, his office director, Jihad Lubad, and Hamas’s chief of security met to finalize what Turkish reports described as “an unusually strict security protocol.”

On the day of the meeting, Hamas leaders arrived one by one. Security teams took extensive precautions to avoid technological tracking, confiscating all personal and wireless devices and issuing special encrypted phones provided by Hamas’s security forces to all meeting participants. This measure reportedly prevented Israel from pinpointing the delegation’s exact location through signal tracing.

After the leaders arrived, Maam al-Hayya urged them to move to another building, insisting they “follow the security guidelines.” The officials were relocated under heavy guard, and the meeting was delayed while Khalil al-Hayya spoke with the Qatari mediator. The meeting finally began at 2:12 p.m., as Hamas security personnel made “arrangements in the area.”

At 3:46 p.m., the Israeli airstrikes began. The first missiles struck the building housing al-Hayya’s family and office, killing Maam al-Hayya. The second strike killed Jihad Lubad and two other Hamas members, Muaman Hassouna and Ahmad Abd al-Malik. A third strike killed Abdullah Abd al-Wahid, the bodyguard of senior Hamas official Bassem Naim, as he attempted to rescue the wounded.

The fourth and fifth attacks directly hit al-Hayya’s family home, wounding family members, while the sixth targeted the Qatari special security unit guarding the compound. By 3:51 p.m., Hamas’s security chief ordered the activation of an emergency evacuation plan. The leaders were evacuated separately via emergency vehicles to secure sites, and the wounded were taken to hospitals. Once all were accounted for, Hamas began coordinating its media response to prevent “public panic.”

The targeted compound lies in Doha’s sensitive diplomatic district, within several hundred meters of multiple foreign embassies. Several Hamas offices are located nearby. Construction of the complex began in 2021 and was completed in 2023, with Hamas taking occupancy in 2024. The site includes five villas, a service building, Khalil al-Hayya’s office and residence, Hamas’s main headquarters, facilities for Qatari security forces, and an emergency operations area.

(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)