Press TV
Fri, 02 Jan 2009 09:42:53 GMT
Hamas calls on Palestinian resistance fighters to hit any Israeli targets in response to a strike that killed the top leader Nizar Rayan.
A Hamas spokesman, Ismail Radwan, called on resistance fighters including Hamas’s military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, to hit all Israeli targets in response to the Thursday strike that killed the senior leader.
Radwan and 18 memebrs of his family were killed after an Israeli F-16 fired two missiles onto his house in Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza strip on Thursday.
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Top Hamas leader killed in Gaza blitz
Press TV
Thu, 01 Jan 2009 14:42:43 GMT
A senior Hamas political leader, Nizar Rayyan, has been killed as Israeli Air Force jets fired a missile at his home in the besieged Gaza Strip.
Rayyan, a top figure within the Hamas resistance group, was killed when a missile crashed into his five-storey house in Jabaliya, in the north of the territory. He was the most senior Hamas leader to be killed in a six-day-old Gaza air offensive, and was an outspoken advocate of retaliatory attacks against Israel.
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Israel kills senior Hamas figure in air attack
Israel destroys the home of Nizar Rayyan, a senior Hamas figure, killing him and 13 members of his family in the Jabaliya camp in Gaza.
In the most high-level assassination of a Hamas official since Israel’s operations began, the direct targeting of Rayyan’s house prompts criticism that Israel is violating international law.
Ayman Mohyeldin reports.
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B’Tselem questions Israeli account of attack
The Israeli military says it bombed a lorry which Hamas fighters were loading with rockets on Monday.
But an Israeli human rights group says civilians were killed as they tried to protect their goods.
Al Jazeera’s Hoda Abdel-Hamid talks to a Palestinian who says the vehicle was his and that it was being loaded with gas canisters by his family.
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Conflict in Gaza: Hisham Melhem Bureau Chief, An-Nahar Daily (Lebanon)
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