GAZA: Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh says the blood of Jaabri will not go in vain as Israeli continues with Gaza attack

Record ID: 359477

  • Title: GAZA: Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh says the blood of Jaabri will not go in vain as Israeli continues with Gaza attack
  • Date: 16th November 2012
  • Summary: GAZA CITY, GAZA (NOVEMBER 15, 2012) (REUTERS) VIEW OF GAZA WHILE AIR STRIKES HIT GAZA STRIP
  • Embargoed: 1st December 2012 12:00
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  • Location: Gaza
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Topics: International Relations,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA45OZSIP9OXRLX5T6XSC20OBWN
  • Story Text: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said on Thursday (November 15), Ahmed Al-Jaabari blood "will not go in vain', in a televised speech.
    "We have survived 22 days of war in 2009, all the people survived more than 22 days. After couple of years from that war, we are prepared to hold on more than that," he said.
    Hamas's military mastermind, Al-Jaabari was killed in in a precision air strike on his car by Israel who then began shelling the coastal enclave from land, air and sea.
    Haniyeh urged Egyptian and Arab to adopt a position that "proves to the occupation that time has changed."
    An Israeli missile destroyed an electricity generator that fed the house of Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh, local residents in the Beach refugee camp where the Islamist leader lived.
    It was unclear whether Haniyeh was in the house at the time of the attack.
    Two rockets from Gaza crashed near Tel Aviv in the first such attack on Israel's commercial capital for 20 years. One fell into the Mediterranean Sea and the other in an uninhabited part of one of the Tel Aviv suburbs south of the city.
    Two days of Israeli air strikes have killed 19 Palestinians, including seven militants and 12 civilians, among them six children and a pregnant woman. A Hamas rocket killed three Israelis in the town of Kiryat Malachi on Thursday morning.
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