Israeli bomb kills Hamas leader and six of his family

Excerpt:  An Israeli jet dropped a one-tonne bomb on the home of a senior Hamas leader in Gaza yesterday, killing him and six members of his family in the first high-level assassination in six days of intensive bombing.

Nizar Rayan, 49, a Hamas hardliner who was close to the group’s military wing, was one of the few senior figures in the movement not to go underground when the latest conflict began. The four-storey building where he had his apartment in the Jabalia refugee camp was destroyed and neighbouring buildings badly damaged.

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