Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh says the terror group intends to violently respond to the deaths of seven Gaza terror group members Monday after Israel blew up an attack tunnel stretching from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory, but suggested the response would be delayed as Palestinian factions work toward reconciliation.
“I assure the leadership of [Palestinian] Islamic Jihad, blood for blood, destruction for destruction,” says Haniyeh, speaking at the funeral for those who died in the tunnel, which belonged to the PIJ terror group, which controls the second-largest military after Hamas in the Strip.
Five of the dead belong to PIJ, two of whom were senior leaders, while two members of Hamas’s military wing were killed, according to the terror group, during a rescue operation in the exploded tunnel.
While Haniyeh vowed to attack Israel, he stressed that Hamas’s immediate response would be to quicken his party’s reconciliation efforts with the Fatah party, which controls the Palestinian Authority.
— Dov Lieber
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