{"id":27926,"date":"2012-11-14T18:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=27926"},"modified":"2012-11-14T18:00:53","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T16:00:53","slug":"israel-gaza-airstrike-hamas-top-commander-killed-by-israel-warplanes-attack-middle-east-news-27926","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/israel-gaza-airstrike-hamas-top-commander-killed-by-israel-warplanes-attack-middle-east-news-27926\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Gaza Airstrike: Hamas Top Commander Killed by Israel warplanes attack \/ Middle East News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>An Israeli airstrike has killed the commander of Hamas\u2019 military wing – which the group said “has opened the gates of hell”.<\/h1>\n

Hamas said Ahmed al Jaabari, who ran the organisation’s armed wing, the Izz el-Deen Al-Qassam, died along with a passenger after their car was targeted by an Israeli missile.<\/p>\n

Israel’s Shin Bet domestic intelligence service confirmed it had carried out the attack, saying it had killed Jaabri because of his “decade-long terrorist activity”. He has long topped Israel’s most-wanted list.<\/p>\n

It marks a dramatic resumption of Israel’s policy of assassinating Palestinian militant leaders.<\/p>\n

Jaabari becomes the most senior Hamas official to be killed since an Israeli invasion of Gaza four years ago.<\/p>\n

Witnesses said Jaabari was travelling in a vehicle in Gaza City when the car exploded.<\/p>\n

Crowds of people and security personnel rushed to the scene of the strike, trying to put out the fire that had engulfed the car and left it a charred shell.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Hamas police cordoned off the area around a hospital where at least one body from the strike was taken. It was draped in a white sheet, with a burned leg poking out.<\/p>\n

Israeli officials had said in recent days that they were considering assassinating top Hamas officials following a wave of heavy rocket fire from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, triggering Israeli airstrikes.<\/p>\n

Hamas police said three other airstrikes hit other targets in Gaza City, Khan Younis and Rafah.<\/p>\n

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