Israeli undercover soldiers shot and killed a top military leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement, or Hamas, today in continuing retaliation for the bombing of an Israeli tank in which four soldiers were killed Saturday, according to the Israeli military and Palestinian officials. The Israeli military said in a statement that its soldiers went into the Palestinian-run Gaza Strip to arrest the man, identified as Riyad Abu Zeid, 32, reportedly the second-ranking leader in the Hamas military wing, Izzedine al-Qassam. Zeid “was planning to carry out a massive terror attack inside Israel,” the statement said, and during the operation to arrest him, Zeid and others with him opened fire on the soldiers, who returned fire. Full Story
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