Special report: Palestine-Israel Relations    

    GAZA, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- A day after eight people died in a mysterious Gaza explosion, Islamic Hamas movement on Saturday harshly slammed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for not announcing an end of talks with Israel.

    "Abbas should be ashamed of those martyrs... he must immediately boycott the occupiers (Israelis). Otherwise, the history would register him in its black pages," Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoom told reporters in Gaza.

    Eight Palestinians, including a senior Islamic Jihad militant, his wife, daughters and neighbors were killed in a huge explosion that ripped through a house in al-Burij refugee camp in central Gaza Strip last night.

    The Palestinians accused Israeli aircraft of targeting the house of Ayman al-Fayyed, the Islamic Jihad commander, but Israel denied responsibility.

    "What happened in al-Burij has exceeded all the red lines," Barhoom said, adding that Israel "must shoulder the responsibility for the responses that the Palestinian resistance factions will make."