Israel sends Syria tough message with Hamas strike
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The killing of a Hamas operative Sunday underscores Israel's intolerance for radicals in Syria.
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A senior Israeli defense official harshly threatened Syria on Monday, accusing President Bashar Assad of direct involvement in terrorism, but stopping short of confirming that Israel was responsible for killing a Hamas leader in Damascus.
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Syria accused Israel of bombing its territory on Thursday and warned it could respond, but Israel Radio carried a denial there had been an air strike.
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Israel is trying to stop Russia selling missiles to arch-foe Syria, which the Jewish state accuses of backing Hizbollah guerrillas and Palestinian militants, Israeli and Russian media said on Wednesday.
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Taking their message to a state they don&#039;t recognize, the Hamas prime minister gave an interview to an Israeli newspaper and his top aide spoke in Hebrew on the radio Tuesday.
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Syria blamed Israel's Mossad  intelligence service for a bombing in Damascus on Monday which  a Palestinian source in Beirut said was a failed attempt to  kill a member of the militant Hamas group.
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TONY EASTLEY: The militant Palestinian group Hamas is blaming Israel for the assassination of one of its most senior military leaders in a car-bombing in the Syrian capital Damascus.
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Syria accused Israel of terrorism  after a bomb -- which Israeli security sources said Israel  planted -- killed a Hamas official in Damascus on Sunday. Hamas  vowed to retaliate.
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A bomb killed a Hamas official in Damascus on Sunday when it tore through his car. Israel&#39;s Channel Two television said Israel was behind the death and the Palestinian militant group vowed revenge.
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Israel threatened Syria Wednesday  over what officials said was complicity in Palestinian suicide  bombings that killed 16 people in the first such attacks in the  Jewish state in nearly six months.
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While it declined to say whether it was responsible for the death of a Hamas leader in Damascus Sunday, Israel accused Syria yesterday of &quot;directing terrorism&quot; and warned of possible
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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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Israel said its warplanes buzzed the summer residence of President Bashar Assad Wednesday in a bold warning to the country that shelters the political leader of Hamas, the Islamic militant group holding an Israeli soldier captive in the Gaza Strip.
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Israel ratcheted up its rhetoric against Syria today, hinting of possible military action following this weekâs suicide bombing of two buses in southern Israel.
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Syria and the militant Palestinian group Hamas accuse Israel of planting the car bomb that killed Hamas official Izz al-Din al-Sheikh Khalil in the Syrian capital, Damascus, yesterday.
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JERUSALEM - Israeli leaders warned Syria on Wednesday that it bears the blame for a double suicide bombing by Hamas militants because it harbors the group's leadership, and they hinted at possible retaliation.    In a first response to Tuesday's attack that killed 16 people in a southern Israeli city, Israeli troops blew up the home of one of the bombers and isolated the West Bank city of Hebron, where the attackers lived...
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The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) said Saturday that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his policy are leading Israel to agony and distress.