Terror groups vow ‘massive missile strikes,’ bombings if targeted killings resume
Palestinian terror groups have threatened to launch terrorist attacks inside Israeli cities if the government resumes the policy of targeted killings, the Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Mayadeen TV station reported on Saturday.
According to the report, the terror groups “informed the mediators that the return of the assassination policy means the return of bombings inside the occupied cities.”
The threat came amid growing talk in the Israeli media that Israel may assassinate Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in response to Thursday’s terror attack in Elad, which resulted in the murder of three Israelis.
Al-Mayadeen quoted unnamed sources as saying that Hamas relayed to the Egyptians a message to the
effect that the terror group was not worried about Israel’s threats to assassinate its leaders.
“The price for such foolishness
is known to the enemy,” the sources said. “The resistance will burn the cities of the center [of Israel] and will direct massive missile strikes on Gush Dan if it carries out its threats.”
Egyptian sources were quoted over the weekend as saying that Cairo rules out the possibility that Israel would resume the policy of targeted assassinations.
The sources told the Qatariowned Al-Araby Al-Jadeed online news website that Egyptian mediators had previously warned Israel that harming Sinwar or any other leaders of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad would mean that the Jewish state “has taken a decision to launch an all-out military confrontation.”
The sources added that the Egyptians were recently contacted by the US administration with the goal of preventing an escalation.