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Sheikh Nizar Rayyan, a senior Hamas leader and cleric was killed along with several others on Thursday when an IAF aircraft dropped a bomb on his Jabalya home, the IDF said.Channel 10 reported that Rayyan was the "mufti" of Hamas's military wing and had replaced Sheikh Ahmed Yassin as the organization's top clerical authority after Yassin's assassination in 2004. Channel 10 reported that Rayyan was the "mufti" of Hamas's military wing and had replaced Sheikh Ahmed Yassin as the... Read Full Story

The Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip today claimed a significant blow against the top ranks of Hamas when an air strike killed Nizar Rayyan, one of the movement’s inner circle. Mr Rayyan, one of Hamas’s most hardline political figures who had advocated renewing suicide bombings inside Israel, died in a targeted strike on his home. He is the most senior Hamas leader to have been killed since 2004, and only yesterday vowed that rocket attacks from Gaza would hit Israel “even deeper” than... Read Full Story

By now you would really think that Hamas would only realize that continued rocket attacks on Israeli civilians would only provoke a violent Israeli military action at some point. But apparently Hamas is so radicalized that common sense just doesn't seem to abound in this organization's logic. And yesterday, a spokesman for Hamas had a decent opportunity to offer an opportunity to explain the continued rocket attacks on Israeli civilians, but instead used the opportunity to claim absurdly that... Read Full Story

RIA NOVOSTI GAZA, January 1 (RIA Novosti) - Israel airstrikes killed on Thursday one of the leaders of the Palestinian movement Hamas, Nizar Ravyan, along with at least nine family members, Hamas said. Ravyan was an outspoken conservative who called for suicide attacks against Israel. Earlier Palestinian health officials said the death toll in the six-day air offensive launched on Gaza by the Jewish state on Saturday had risen to 403 Palestinians, and more than 2,000 people were injured... Read Full Story

Overnight, the Air Force struck several targets in Gaza. Arab sources reported seven dead, raising the number killed in the IDF operation so far to 307. The army reported that it struck Hamas outposts, weapon laboratories, and weapon research sites. Arab sources reported that the Air Force also struck a house close to that of Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh, which he reportedly used as his office. More Iran prepares operations against Israel Read Full Story