Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Sunday, September 07, 2003
Hamas Threatens to Kill Sharon after Israel's Assassination Attempt
The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) on Saturday threatened to kill Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon after Israel's failed assassination attempt on Hamas founder and spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.
The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) on Saturday threatened to kill Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon after Israel's failed assassination attempt on Hamas founder and spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.
"We warn Sharon that his head is now wanted by our troops," some members of Hamas' military wing said at a hospital where Yassin was treated for light injury.
Yassin and Isma'el Haneya, a well-known Hamas leader, had been in a meeting at the house of Marwan Abu Rass, another prominent Hamas leader, in Daraj neighborhood in Gaza City, Hamas official sources said.
While Yassin and Haneya were leaving the building, an Israeli F-16 warplane fired a heavy bomb at the house, the sources said,adding that Yassin was hurt in his arm and other three people were injured.