Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh has survived numerous assassination attempts, thanks in part to a crude system of coded messages that alert him to imminent danger. The system, which includes simple codes like ‘milk’ for an imminent attack and ‘oranges’ for a false alarm, has kept Haniyeh alive for years. The system was revealed in a new book by journalist Shlomi Eldar, who spent years studying Hamas and its leadership.
