Top Hamas militant assassinated
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Israel killed the top bombmaker and rocket engineer of the Hamas militant group in an aerial drone strike in Gaza City. It came just days before a key parliamentary vote on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s Gaza pullout plan.
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Hamas vowed revenge yesterday after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza killed one of its senior commanders - the latest assassination to have weakened the militant group.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Sept. 19, 2004 - An Israeli helicopter fired a missile at a car in Gaza City late Sunday, residents said, killing a senior Hamas militant leader, the latest Israeli attack in the territory it plans to leave next year.
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BAGHDAD  -- A senior aide to radical Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr was assassinated on the road between the holy city of Najaf and Baghdad, an official from the movement said Wednesday.
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A car bomb in the Syrian capital has killed a senior member of the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Hamas officials say military commander Izz el-Deen al-Sheikh Khalil was killed Sunday morning while starting his car.
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An assassination attempt was made Sunday on the man who may replace Yasser Arafat as Palestinian chief.
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Israel killed the top bomb maker of the  Hamas Islamic militant group in a Gaza Strip air strike on  Thursday, days before a key parliamentary vote on Prime  Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to quit the occupied territory.
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Israel killed the top bombmaker and rocket  engineer of the Hamas militant group on Thursday in an  airstrike in Gaza City, days before a key parliamentary vote on  Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Gaza pullout plan.
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Palestinian foreign minister Nabil Shaath condemned here on Friday what he described as the &quot;assassination&quot; of a leader of the radical Palestinian group Hamas who was killed in an Israeli air strike.
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One of the key cadres of Ezz Eddine al-Qassam group, the military wing of the Hamas movement, was killed and another one was strongly injured in a mortar explosion.
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Hamas gunmen on Saturday killed a young  Palestinian they accused of helping Israel assassinate Hamas  leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and other militants, calling it a  warning to others not to collaborate with Israel.
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A senior Hamas leader survived an Israeli assassination attempt in the Gaza Strip Wednesday but at least five other Palestinians were killed in the explosion that tore through his home.
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GAZA CITYA senior Hamas leader survived an Israeli assassination attempt early today but at least five other Palestinians were killed in the explosion that tore through his Gaza home.
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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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The body of a Palestinian man was found in a Gaza City street Saturday, and Hamas said it executed him on suspicion he provided information that helped Israel to assassinate the group&#39;s founder and nine others.
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QALQILYA, West Bank  - Three masked men shot and killed a Hamas leader as he left a mosque in the West Bank on Wednesday, witnesses said, a day after a rival Palestinian faction threatened to kill senior Hamas members.
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Hamas says shooting at a Gaza border post was an "an assassination attempt" on the Palestinian prime minister.