HAMAS, JIHAD VOW NEW STRIKES AGAINST ISRAEL
The Palestinian resistance movements Hamas and Islamic Jihad vowed Saturday to launch “new strikes against Israel," while the PA accused Israel of "assassinating" a Fateh activist Friday near Nablus.
The two movements vowed Saturday to launch new strikes against the Jewish state, reported Al Jazeera satellite channel.
The movements’ warning came as hundreds attended the funeral of a Palestinian who was killed Friday when a booby-trapped truck exploded in Gaza.
Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack that exploded in the Gaza Strip early Friday without causing injuries.
An Israeli army spokesman confirmed that a blast had taken place, but did not know about injuries.
Israel Radio said no one was hurt, and that the circumstances were unclear.
Hamas said in a statement that the bomber, Hussein Abu Nassr, was killed in the attack, which took place at Martyrs Junction (known to Israelis as Netzarim).
PA SAYS FATEH ACTIVIST WAS ASSASSINATED BY ISRAEL
The Palestinian Authority said that Israeli troops assassinated Friday a Fateh activist who was killed in a car, along with six others, in Balata refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus.
“Israeli intelligence officers assassinated Azzam Muzher, 25,” an official statement said, cited by the official Palestinian news agency, WAFA.
Earlier reports said that the car blew up when a grenade went off by accident inside the vehicle.
One of the men in the car was holding a bag full of grenades when one of the devices went off, Haaretz and Reuters had quoted a Palestinian source as saying.
The Israeli army denied any involvement, calling it a "work accident."
HAMAS, JIHAD CLAIM HADERA ATTACK
Hamas and Islamic Jihad have both claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack next to Hadera's central bus station.
The two suicide bombers were killed when their car rammed and exploded next to Egged bus number 841 en route from Tel Aviv to Kiryat Shmona.
Almost 40 Israelis were wounded in the attack - two of them moderately and the remainder suffered light wounds.
Hizbollah's Al Manar satellite channel television said that Islamic Jihad's Jerusalem Brigade carried out the attack, but Hamas sources in Gaza said their organization was responsible, according to the Jerusalem Post.
The paper said that the public transportation bus traveling from Tel Aviv to Kiryat Shmona was rammed by the attacker's car on Maccabi Street near the city's central bus station, quoting a spokesperson for Egged bus company.
Hadera was hit by a similar attack last November 22, when two Israelis were killed and more than 60 wounded in a bus bombing.
Meanwhile, Al Jazeera on the same day quoted Hamas' spiritual leader, Ahmad Yassin, as saying that Palestinians "will reach the enemies wherever they are."
Earlier, Palestinian gunmen shot and wounded two soldiers traveling in an army vehicle near Kfar Uja, north of Jericho.
The Jerusalem Post said medics treated the soldiers at the scene, quoting Army Radio – Albawaba.com
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