Israel kills senior Hamas militant
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Hamas has vowed to hit back hard for Israel&#39;s assassination of the &quot;Father of the Qassam&quot; rocket, a weapon symbolising Palestinian militants&#39; defiance of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his plan to quit Gaza.
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An Israeli air strike on a car in the Gaza Strip on Saturday killed three senior Islamic Jihad militants long sought by Israel for firing rockets and orchestrating other attacks against Israeli targets.
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Israeli troops killed a Hamas gunman during a clash near the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis on Friday, the Palestinian Islamist group and medical workers said.
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Israel has killed Hamas&#39;s top bomb and rocket-maker in Gaza ahead of a Knesset vote on a pull-out from the area. Adnan al-Ghoul died when an Israeli missile hit his car, witnesses said.
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A Hamas militant killed by Israeli army fire today was responsible for a rocket attack which killed two Israeli children last week, according to the Israeli army.
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An Israel Defense Forces helicopter fired a missile at a car in Gaza City last night, killing a Hamas militant, residents said. Hamas identified the dead man as Khaled Abu Shamiyeh, 30, from the Shati refugee camp next to Gaza City.
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Israel killed the military chief of the  Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad in a Gaza City air  strike Tuesday that drew vows of revenge and could complicate  efforts to end a huge Israeli offensive.
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A military leader of the radical Palestinian group Hamas who was at the top of Israelâs most wanted list, has been killed in an air strike on Gaza City.
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A senior leader of Hamas's military wing  was killed in an Israeli missile strike on his car in the Gaza  Strip, Palestinian witnesses said.
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Israel killed Hamas&#39;s top bomb and rocket maker in Gaza and launched a missile strike on the home of another leading militant on Friday in the run-up to a key parliamentary
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Israel killed a regional head of the Islamic Jihad group in the Jenin region of the West Bank, the Israel Defense Forces said in an e-mailed statement.
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Israel killed eight Hamas militants Tuesday, firing missiles into the sandy courtyard of a Hamas police station as the Islamic militant group claimed responsibility for a bold strike inside Israel, the first suicide mission in over a year.
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A leader of the military wing of Hamas, who has long been high on Israel&#39;s wanted list, was killed last night in a missile strike in Gaza City.
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Israel killed the top commander of the  Islamic Jihad militant group in a Gaza airstrike on Tuesday,  drawing vows of revenge that could complicate efforts to end a  massive Israeli offensive into the strip.
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Hamas vowed revenge today after an Israeli air strike killed its second most senior commander, in the latest Israeli assassination targeting the militant group.
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A missile from an Israeli aircraft killed   a Palestinian militant in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday after he   was spotted near a rocket launcher, local residents and the   Israeli military said.
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Israel killed two Hamas militants in an air strike in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday and announced it was not considering a ceasefire with the Islamist group despite appeals by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.