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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In a hit claimed by Israeli security officials, a senior Hamas operative was killed in a car bombing Sunday outside his house in Damascus, the first such killing of a leader of the Islamic militant group in Syria.
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Hamas militants killed a Palestinian whose information they said helped Israel assassinate the group's founder and nine others, dumping the collaborator's bullet-ridden body near a trash can on a Gaza street where it was found Saturday.
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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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A senior leader of Hamas&#39;s military wing was killed in an Israeli missile strike on his car in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, Palestinian witnesses said.
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An Israeli Apache helicopter fired a missile early Wednesday, killing one Islamic Hamas militant and wounding several others in northern Gaza Strip, witnesses and medics reported.
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Israeli forces arrested a senior Hamas leader today who is accused of masterminding a number of deadly attacks on Israelis, including a double-suicide bombing in a southern desert town in August that killed 16 people.
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Israel killed the chief military commander  of the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad in a airstrike  Tuesday, the highest profile Israeli assassination for months,  local leaders of the group said.
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GAZA CITY -- An Israeli aircraft fired two missiles at a car traveling in the Gaza Strip late yesterday, killing a senior Hamas commander who was among the government's most-wanted fugitives -- the latest in a series of Israeli assassinations that have weakened the militant group.
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A senior Hamas leader has survived an Israeli assassination attempt in the Gaza Strip, but at least five other Palestinians were killed in the explosion that tore through his home.
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An Israeli aircraft fired two missiles at a vehicle traveling in the Gaza Strip late Thursday, killing two people including a senior Hamas member at the top of Israel's most-wanted list, a spokesman for the militant group said.
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Israel killed a top leader of the Hamas  militant group and another gunman in an airstrike on their car  on Thursday in Gaza, days before a key parliamentary vote on  Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Gaza pullout plan.
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Israel killed a senior Islamic Jihad commander, a top bombmaker and at least four other militants in the Gaza Strip on Monday, prompting the group to threaten suicide bombings within the Jewish state.
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Israel killed two Hamas militants in an air strike in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday and said it was not considering a ceasefire with the Islamist group despite appeals from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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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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The Israeli army has shot dead a member of militant group Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip near a border crossing with Israel, security sources say.
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Senior Hamas military wing official Adnan Al-Ghoul was killed by an Israel Air Force missile strike in Gaza City last night. Al-Ghoul, who was killed alongside his deputy Imad Abas, was a top Hamas engineer