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March 07, 2006
Israel Threatens Palestinian Prime Minister
Hisham Abu Taha and Maha Akeel, Arab News correspondents writing from Gaza City, reported March 8, 2006 that:Israeli leaders yesterday [March 7, 2006] threatened to murder the incoming prime minister of Palestine. Acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and others in his Kadima party said Ismail Haniyeh and other Hamas politicians could be taken out if the Palestinian group resumed attacks.
Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz of Kadima told Army Radio that Israel would not hesitate to assassinate Hamas leaders if the group resumed attacks against Israel. Asked specifically about Ismail Haniyeh, the designated prime minister from Hamas, Mofaz said: “If Hamas... presents us with the challenge of having to confront a terror organization, then no one there will be immune. Not just Ismail Haniyeh. No one will be immune.”Arab News noted that, "Mofaz spoke a day after an Israeli airstrike on an ice cream truck killed two Islamic Jihad members and three bystanders in Gaza City. Two of those killed were children, aged eight and 14."
For more, please see "Haniyeh Could Be Murdered".
Posted by Munir Umrani at March 7, 2006 11:35 PM
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