Hamas Vows Revenge for Military Head's Killing by Israel

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Hamas Vows Revenge for Military Head's Killing by Israel

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Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, leader of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), said on Tuesday that his movement will revenge the assassination of their armed wing leader Salah Shehada by Israeli troops in an overnight airstrike.

"This crime can never be expressed by words. We would leave actsto express," Yassin told reporters at his house in reaction to the assassination of Shehada, the commander of Hamas' armed wing of Ezzedin Al-Qassam Brigades.

In the airstrike carried out by Israel's F-16 warplanes overnight Tuesday, Shehada, his wife and three of their children aswell as some other civilians were killed.

Palestinian medical sources at Shiffa Hospital in Gaza said 15 were killed and 150 wounded, 10 of them are in critical conditions.

Mahmoud Al Zahar, a senior Hamas leader, said the Israel's attack "is representing a new stage of the conflict with the enemy (Israel)", which "would be a horrible revenge for this crime."

A general strike dominated the Gaza Strip and the West Bank to protest the attack, which was described by all Palestinian political and military groups as "a war crime against innocent civilians."

The Islamic Jihad (Holy war) movement announced in a statement inGaza that "every restaurant, every bus and every public place in Israel will be a target for our Mujahideen (holy fighters)."

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