OCCUPIED TERRITORIES: ISRAELI TERROR

Guardian: Israel 'targeting entire Hamas leadership'

Israel will attempt to kill the entire leadership of Palestinian militant group Hamas, stepping up targeted attacks, Israeli security sources said today.
The report comes after Israel attracted widespread international condemnation for its assassination of the Hamas founder and spiritual leader, Ahmed Yassin, yesterday.

Security sources told the Associated Press that the policy of assassinating Hamas leaders had last night been reaffirmed at a five-hour meeting between the Israeli defence minister, Shaul Mofaz, and security officials at the defence ministry in Tel Aviv. The meeting followed the helicopter missile attack in which Yassin was killed in Gaza.