Israel targeting Hamas leaders again after bombings
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Israel will resume its campaign to assassinate Hamas leaders in retaliation for the killing of 16 people in the first suicide bombings in the Jewish state in nearly six months, security sources said on Wednesday.
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September 20, 2004 -- JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon warned yesterday that Israel will retaliate against Palestinian rockets even if they are fired from civilian areas.
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Israel launched air strikes targeting Palestinian rocket launch sites in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, the first air strikes since Hamas seized control of the territory last week.
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The Israeli army announced it has arrested a Hamas leader in the West Bank town of Hebron, claiming he was planning for bomb attacks against Israelis.
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Israel rounded up a Palestinian Cabinet minister and 32 other Hamas leaders in the West Bank before dawn Thursday, trying a new tactic in its campaign to pressure the Islamic militant group into halting rocket barrages from the Gaza Strip.
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JERUSALEM -- The Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, yesterday vowed to widen the fight against Hamas militants with fresh airstrikes after a Hamas rocket fired from the Gaza Strip killed an Israeli.
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Israeli air strikes killed two Hamas  militants in Gaza on Thursday just after the Islamic group  renewed its threats to continue rocket attacks against Israelis  despite a massive army offensive aimed at stopping them.
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Israel threatened to use force to topple the Gaza Strip's Hamas leaders on Monday following a surge of cross-border rocket attacks by the Palestinian Islamist group.
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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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GAZA, Gaza Strip - The Palestinian militant group Hamas threatened today to target Israelis abroad after blaming Israel for the killing of a Hamas official in Syria.
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Israel resolved Wednesday to keep striking Palestinians who fire rockets at Israeli border towns and a pre-dawn air attack on northern Gaza killed two members of a Hamas rocket squad.
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Israel struck back with missiles at Gaza  Strip militants Monday after five Israeli troops were killed in  a resurgence of violence that has dented hopes of peace after  Yasser Arafat's death.
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Israeli troops arrest a second Hamas member of the Palestinian cabinet, as air strikes continue on Gaza.
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Hamas on Wednesday canceled its 17th anniversary rally over concerns that Israel could target leaders of the Islamic militant group in retaliation for a deadly attack on an army outpost in Gaza.
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Claim of secret talks broadcast as Syria accuses Israel of targeting Hamas member in Damascus. &quot;The political leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas has said that it has had secret contacts with the
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JERUSALEM : The Israeli government said it expects an upsurge in attacks by Palestinian hardliners ahead of its Gaza withdrawal, as a top Hamas fighter&#39;s assassination triggered an immediate response with a rocket attack.
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Israel pounded Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing at least five fighters, and seized a Palestinian cabinet minister.