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| Israel boosts security in wake of Hamas killing |
| 2010-02-02 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Israel has boosted security measures at its borders and embassies in the wake of the killing of a senior Hamas leader for which the Palestinian Islamists have blamed the Jewish state, Israeli public radio said on Monday. Mahmoud al-Mabhuh was found dead in his hotel room in Dubai on Jan. 20, after travelling there from his base in Damascus to buy weapons for the Islamists ruling the Gaza Strip. Israeli media hailed the killing, although Israel's government has not officially commented on it. Hamas said Israel was behind the killing and on Monday the group's armed wing, which Mabhuh helped found in the 1980s, vowed to avenge the assassination. "The Zionist enemy will not escape punishment for the crime it has committed, but we will determine the nature of this punishment at the appropriate time and place," Abu Obeida, a spokesman for the group, said. He hinted that Hamas might reconsider its long-standing policy of only carrying out attacks within Israel, the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip, all of which it hopes to one day transform into an Islamic state. "The battle with the Zionist enemy is inside the historic borders of Palestine, and the occupation is trying to change the rules of the game... It should expect anything." Dubai police chief said on Sunday that Israel's spy agency Mossad may have been behind the murder of Mabhuh in his luxury hotel room. "It could be Mossad, or another party," Dhahi Khalfan told AFP. "Personally, I don't exclude any possibility. I don't exclude any party that has an interest in the assassination" of Mabhuh. |
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