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Hamas: Rocket attacks not aimed at Israeli women, children (Extra)
Apr 5, 2008, 11:38 GMT
Gaza - Islamic Hamas movement on Saturday denied targeting Israeli children and women with rocket fire from the Gaza Strip.
'Hamas doesn't mean to kill children with its rockets,' spokesman Ismail Radwan told reporters in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip in response to a statment by the number two leader of the al-Qaeda terrorist network Ayman al-Zawahiri who said Hamas' random rockets kill women and children in violation of Islamic law.
Radwan added that 'the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians may involve some killing of children,' accusing the Israeli army of 'deliberately killing children, women and destroying houses and mosques.'
Local Palestinian media reported that al-Zawahiri's statements appeared on an Islamic website as part of responses he sent to readers' questions.
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Hamas are scumApr 5th, 2008 - 16:59:33
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Friday, April 04, 2008 by Staff Writer
Hamas hides heavy weapons under Gaza school
Residents of a Gaza town complained this week after Hamas forces constructing a weapons storage facility under the local schoolhouse severed a water main.
The Ramallah-based Palestine Press news agency reported that Hamas hoped to use the school to shield some of their heavy US and Iranian-made weapons from Israeli raids and air strikes.
In other Gaza news, Hamas gunmen on Thursday bombed a cemetery where British soldiers who helped liberate the area from Ottoman Turkish rule during World War I are buried.
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights later reported that two of its workers and two accompanying Reuters correspondents were attacked by Hamas security forces when they arrived at the scene to interview cemetery guards. The Hamas police reportedly confiscated the reporters' camera memory cards and all video footage taken at the site.
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