Okaz: Sheikh Yassin vows revenge for killing Abu Shanab

Originally published August 23, 2003

Founder of the Palestinian Resistance Movement, Hamas, Sheikh Ahmad Yassin has asserted that revenge for the assassination of Ismael Abu Shanab, one of Hamas Leaders, will be grievous.

In an interview with Okaz Saudi newspaper issued in Riyadh yesterday, he asserted that the "Israeli goal of liquidating Hamas is an illusion that can't be realized."

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