I'm hard pressed to understand what Israel wanted out of this. Were the targets that valuable?<p>That's not impossible, especially if they were involved in the October 7 attack. Iran is a major source of funding and weapons to Hamas, and they've been using Hamas to attack Israel by proxy for decades.<p>Even so... going after such people in a third country is going to invite reprisals that will be widely seen as justified. I don't expect them to care much what most of the world thinks, but they do require American support. They're risking a lot by this, and by their own rationale they'd better be getting something very serious for it.