Israel kills top Hamas commander in Dubai: Hamas

"I say to you Zionists, do not rejoice. You killed him but his sons will fight you," he said. "God already took our leaders and loved ones, but resistance goes on. Palestine is a blessed land. It will not remain patient."

(And Ignorant)

Israel playing a little of the reach out and touch someone game !
Ain't it great when a Terrorist scumbag gets his (Even 20 Years later)



DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Israel assassinated a senior Hamas military commander in Dubai who played a major role in a Palestinian uprising in the 1980s, an official in the Islamist group said on Friday.

Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, an Israeli target since engineering the capture of Israeli soldiers two decades ago, was killed on January 20, Izzat al-Rishq told Reuters in the Syrian capital Damascus.

Israeli and Dubai officials had no immediate comment.

Mabhouh's death lengthens Hamas's list of what it describes as "martyrs," and constitutes another setback for the group in its fight against the Jewish state.

Israel has killed dozens of leaders and military figures in Hamas, which was founded two decades ago as a religious resistance movement against Israeli occupation.

"I cannot reveal the circumstances (of the killing). We are working with the authorities in the United Arab Emirates," said Rishq, who is a member of Hamas's politburo.

Rishq said Mabhouh, 50, was an "important" member of Izz el-Deen al-Qassam brigades, Hamas's military wing named after a Syrian religious leader who fought British colonial forces in Palestine in the 1930s and was executed.

He said the brigades "will respond (against Israel) in the appropriate time and place," but Hamas will not let the killing derail efforts to arrange for a prisoners' exchange deal between Hamas and Israel that have run into difficulties.