A Israeli task force has developed a list with thousands of names of people who planned or joined the October 7 attack. The list is used to kill or capture all those people. Hundreds have been struck from the list, in one of the most personal and highly technical targeting campaigns in the history of warfare. The campaign continues amid the demands of the war with Iran and a cease-fire agreement in Gaza. No participant is deemed too insignificant—down to the man who drove a tractor through a border fence that day. Nearly two years after he breached the border, the tractor driver was identified, located and blown up in an airstrike as he walked a narrow urban street in Gaza, according to footage released by Israel’s military.

Militants who videotaped their Oct. 7 exploits on phones or GoPro cameras to share on social media, or those who phoned home to brag, learned too late the degree of Israel’s surveillance acumen and desire for retribution…Agents from military intelligence and Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service, pore over militants’ videos posted on social media…Agents run the images through facial recognition programs to sift for names, and comb through intercepted phone calls. They view location data from cell tower logs and interrogate Gazan detainees to uncover who did what.

Excerpt from Dov Lieber, Inside Israel’s High-Tech Campaign to Kill or Capture Every Oct. 7 Attackers, WSJ, 2026