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GAZA, Sept. 6 (Xinhuanet) -- The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement
(Hamas) on Saturday threatened to kill Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon after
Israel's failed assassination attempt on Hamas founder and spiritual leader
Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.
"We warn Sharon that his head is now wanted by our troops," some
members of Hamas' military wing said at a hospital where Yassin was treated for
light injury.
Yassin and Isma'el Haneya, a well-known Hamas leader, had been in a meeting
at the house of Marwan Abu Rass, another prominent Hamas leader, in Daraj
neighborhood in Gaza City, Hamas official sources said.
While Yassin and Haneya were leaving the building, an Israeli F-16 warplane
fired a heavy bomb at the house, the sources said,adding that Yassin was hurt in
his arm and other three people were injured. Enditem
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