SYRIA: Hamas Leader Khaled Meshaal calls for more resistance against Israel in response to attack by Israel on a Lebanese village of Qana that killed more than 60 civilians

Record ID: 279412

  • Title: SYRIA: Hamas Leader Khaled Meshaal calls for more resistance against Israel in response to attack by Israel on a Lebanese village of Qana that killed more than 60 civilians
  • Date: 31st July 2006
  • Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (English) HAMAS LEADER KHALED MESHAAL SAYING: "We are totally against this terrible massacre that Israel has committed in Qana for the second time and which has killed innocent children and women. This is the real terrorism of the Zionist nation and behind it the American administration in the middle of the day. This administration is covering this crime. The U
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  • Topics: International Relations
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  • Story Text: Hamas Leader Khaled Meshaal has called for more resistance against Israel in response to an attack by Israel on a Lebanese village that killed more than 60 civilians on Sunday.
    "The only response to this ugly massacre is an acceleration of the resistance in Lebanon and Palestine," Meshaal told Reuters in an interview.
    Meshaal said Israel was trying to appease Palestinians holding an Israeli soldier in Gaza by offering them a deal he did not specify so it could focus its efforts on its onslaught on Lebanon.
    "We have to be careful of calls to isolate the Palestinian cause from what is going on in Lebanon. This will not protect our people," said Meshaal, who lives in Syria.
    Palestinian sources said last week President Mahmoud Abbas told armed groups in Gaza that Israel was prepared to end its attacks on the strip if they agreed to stop firing rockets into Israel.
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