Israel ‘assassinates’ senior Hamas official in Gaza

‘The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says the Israeli regime has assassinated one of its senior members in the besieged Gaza Strip.
“Hamas and its (military wing) hold (Israel) and its collaborators responsible for this despicable crime,” Hamas said in a statement on Friday night, hours after gunmen shot dead Mazen Fuqaha.
Israel “knows that the blood of fighters is not spilled in vain and Hamas will know how to act,” the statement added.
An Interior Ministry spokesman in the Gaza Strip said Fuqaha, 38, was killed in the enclave’s Tell al-Hama neighborhood, and that an investigation had been launched in to the incident.’
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