Israel murders a Hamas leader

"The Islamic Resistance group, Hamas, has vowed to avenge the assassination by the Zionist occupation army Monday morning of Amjad Hanawi, an Islamic guerrilla leader in the northern West Bank of Nablus," IRNA reported.

The report said Hanawi was killed in an Israeli army military operation in the city before dawn Monday. Hamas military wing, the Izzidein al Qassam said in a statement in Gaza that Israel would pay "a painful price for this hideous murder,"