Israel has vowed to intensify efforts to eliminate militant leaders in the Gaza Strip after Sunday's double-suicide attack on its second-biggest port. The army appeared to suspend its campaign against political leaders of Hamas last September but government sources said yesterday that "no one involved in terrorism is immune".
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Raanan Gissin, the spokesman of the prime minister, Ariel Sharon, said Israel would intensify its intelligence gathering and military operations in the Gaza Strip to ensure militants did not get "a moment of peace". He added: "They will have to spend all their time defending themselves rather than planning terrorist attacks on Israelis." He said this was not a new policy as Israel already has "a sustained and relentless strategy of intercepting terrorists". Israel has not tried to assassinate any Hamas leaders since September when it failed to kill Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and Mahmoud Zahar. In August it killed Ismail Abu Shanab after failing in June to kill Abdel Aziz Rantisi, Hamas's most prominent spokesman.
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