One of Hamas's top leaders is dead. I'm Virginia Allen and this is the Daily Signal

Top News for Wednesday, July 31st. Top Hamas leader Ismail Hamay was killed in a strike on Iran's soil. Now Iran's

Supreme leader says revenge is Iran's duty. Israel has not taken responsibility for the attack, but the strike is widely believed

to have been carried out by Israel.

Following the assassination of the Hamas leader, Iran's revolutionary guard issued a statement saying undoubtedly this crime

of the Zionist regime will face a harsh and painful response from the powerful and huge resistance front, especially Islamic Iran.

Earlier today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

said Israel will exact a heavy price from any aggression against us on any front.

So how significant was this attack and will we see an escalation in the Middle East?

I ask the Herrude Foundation's vice president of the Institute

for National Security, Victoria Coates, this question.

For the Israelis to be able to carry out this kind of pinpoint strike from Iraqi airspace on the capital and the

Iranians have no way to prevent it.

What that should do is really send that clear message to Iran. We're done. And you know they

I think it was very strategic in that you know it was it was one person it was the

leadership of Hamas which Israel has every right to go after.

So it wasn't a mass casualty event like we saw in Northern Israel, you know, you could call it

proportionate.

So I, you know, the hope would be under normal circumstances

that the Iranians, as they did after Solemnani,

would kind of say, okay, like we're done in this round.

Coates went on to tell me that the lack of strong leadership in the US right now, given that

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