Thursday, May 24, 2007

Israelis Arrest Hamas Leaders

Palestinians inspect a destroyed money exchange office after an Israeli air strike in Gaza early May 24, 2007. Israeli forces seized a Palestinian cabinet minister and 32 other officials in the occupied West Bank and launched air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, stepping up a campaign against Hamas Islamists. (Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters)

This is an outrage. I prefer they blow them away, giving us car swarms.
NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli forces seized a Palestinian cabinet minister and 32 other officials in the occupied West Bank and launched air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, stepping up a campaign against Hamas Islamists.

The move prompted renewed threats from Hamas, who said they would continue to attack Israel with rocket fire.

"Our strikes against the enemy will continue, we have freed the hand of all our cells to strike the enemy everywhere in Palestine," the Hamas armed wing said in a statement.

But Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah demanded Hamas and other groups halt firing at Israeli towns immediately so he could negotiate a wider truce with the Jewish state.

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