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Friday, August 22, 2014
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Friday, August 22, 2014
US condemns Hamas threats to attack Ben Gurion Airport
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe State Department condemns Hamas’s attempts to carry out a rocket attack on Ben Gurion Airport and its threats to airline carriers not to fly into, or depart from, Tel Aviv.
The US “condemn[s] Hamas’s targeted attack on Ben Gurion Airport and Hamas’s threat against civilian aviation,” says State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf.
“That’s something that is unacceptable. The rocket fire needs to stop,” she tells reporters at the daily press briefing in Washington.
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