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イスラエルの防衛大臣代理は、軍営ラジオで、今月14日のハマスによる自爆攻撃に対する報復措置として、ハマスの精神的指導者ヤシン師を殺害対象とする旨を宣告した。
ヤシン師は「脅しに屈しない。占領が破綻するまで攻撃を続ける」、また、14日の爆撃計画については関知していなかった、と表明。
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=38142&d=17&m=1&y=2004
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Israel Marks Hamas Leader for Death
Nazir Majally, Asharq Al-Awsat
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, 17 January 2004 — The founder of Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, is “marked for death” after the group’s latest deadly attack, Israel’s deputy defense minister said in the bluntest warning yet against Hamas leaders.
“Sheikh Yassin is marked for death, and he should hide himself deep underground where he will not know the difference between day and night. And we will find him in the tunnels, and we will eliminate him,” Deputy Defense Minister Zeev Boim told Israel Army radio late Thursday.
However, Boim later softened his comments, saying no specific decision was made to kill Yassin in response to a Hamas bombing this week.
Yassin, a quadriplegic, did not try to hide yesterday, making his way to a Gaza City mosque near his home in a wheelchair pushed by an assistant.
“We do not fear the threat of death,” Yassin, wrapped in a brown blanket, told reporters outside the mosque. “We will not bow to pressure and resistance will continue until the occupation is destroyed.”
Yassin said he was not personally involved in planning attacks, denying allegations by Israeli security officials that he had approved Wednesday’s bombing in which a female suicide bomber killed four Israelis at the Erez Crossing into Israel.
The Israeli officials also said Yassin issued a religious ruling allowing women to become bombers, after Hamas initially recruited only male assailants.
Israeli security officials met Wednesday at the Defense Ministry to weigh a response to the latest Hamas bombing. One official said assassinations of senior Hamas members are likely to resume after a lull of several months. Israeli officials have said in the past they would go after Hamas leaders in retaliation for deadly bombings, but Boim’s comment marked the first time a senior official spoke in public about a particular person being targeted.
Boim left for the United States immediately after his radio comments. Contacted later, he said he had spoken in general and that at Wednesday’s meeting at the Defense Ministry, no specific decision was made to kill Yassin.
Several security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, also said Yassin was not singled out in the discussions at the Defense Ministry.
Killing the Hamas founder would require approval by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the officials said. Sharon’s senior adviser, Raanan Gissin, said that “we never comment on specific cases.”
For its part, the Palestinian Authority warned Israel against resuming the assassinations of Palestinians.
“A resumption of the policy of liquidation will put back the region to square one and will lead to an escalation,” Nabil Abu Rudeina, chief adviser to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, said.
Meanwhile, in the southern Gaza Strip around 100 Palestinian children and teenagers demonstrated in memory of British pacifist Tom Hurndall who died this week after being critically wounded by Israeli gunfire.
The demonstrators laid a wreath at the spot where Hurndall was shot while trying to protect Palestinian children in the Rafah refugee camp.
Israeli forces kept up their pursuit of wanted Palestinians, making 10 arrests overnight in the West Bank.
They also maintained the closure at the Erez Crossing in the wake of Wednesday’s bomb attack, leaving at least 4,000 Palestinians unable to reach their jobs at a nearby industrial estate.
Military sources said the crossing will remain closed until the building is repaired and more effective security measures put in place. An Israeli strike against Yassin, who is revered also by Palestinians who do not support Hamas, would likely provoke revenge bombings.
Palestinian legislator Hanan Ashrawi said an attack on Yassin would also boost support for militants among the Palestinians. “It doesn’t take much brains to know that assassinating the political leadership of Hamas will have serious implications locally and regionally,” she said.
Yassin, who founded Hamas in 1987 and spent several years in Israeli prisons, already dodged one Israeli attempt to kill him in September. A warplane dropped a 250-kilo (550-pound) bomb on a building where he and other Hamas leaders were meeting, but Yassin escaped with just a small wound to his hand.
In the summer, Israel also launched several high-profile attacks on other Palestinian leaders, killing Ismail Abu Shanab, considered a relative pragmatist in the group. Two others, Abdel Aziz Rantissi and Mahmoud Zahar, narrowly escaped missile strikes.
— Additional input from agencies
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