More “gates of hell” rhetoric from Hamas:
Hamas warned on Thursday that the organization’s response to the targeted killing of one of its leaders by Israel would be “strong and painful.”
Meanwhile, a member of one of the other armed factions in Gaza said that the group might attempt to launch rockets deeper into Israeli territory following the strike against Nizar Rayyan earlier in the day.
[…] Hamas lawmaker and one of its spokesmen Mushir al-Masri said that the balance of terror in expected to change following Rayyan’s killing. He described the assassination as a “dangerous development and the crossing of red lines,” and stated that “the scope of the response will be painful and proportionate to the scale of the killing.”
Really. What more can they do to Israel that they haven’t done? Send rockets 25 miles deep into Israel’s cities, destroying schools and apartment buildings? Blow up sucide bombs on buses? Terrorize the town of Sderot? I mean, really. Just shut up already, you blustering blowhards hiding in your bunkers, afraid of becoming martyrs yourselves.
As expected, neither AP nor Reuters carried the fact that the IDF called the house and warned its residents to leave before they bombed it. But Reuters did report that Hamas warned Rayyan not to stay in his home.
Hamas Radio said he had ignored advice to leave his house as other Hamas leaders have done in anticipation of assassination attempts by Israeli forces, who confirmed the air strike.
Way to keep an article balanced, boys. You never disappoint.
Kind of reminds me of a bad Hollywood movie plot: The IDF calls your house and says “get out, we’re going to bomb you forward into the Stone Age” and they all sit around and wait…
Well they always say they are soooo anxious to become “martyrs” and here was the IDF giving them advance notice of just how to achieve that state. All they had to do was sit there and wait and…presto, instant paradise. Who would leave the house with such a promise of delights to come?