Ex-Zionist minister calls for assassinating Hamas leaders
A former Zionist minister has renewed call for the assassination of top Hamas leaders Haniyeh and Sinwar, Anadolu Agency reported.
"It is time to send Ismail Haniyeh and Yahya Sinwar to meet (former Hamas leader Abdul Aziz) al-Rantisi and (Hamas founder Ahmad) Yasin," former Zionist regime’s Communications Minister Ayoub al-Qara told the Israeli Channel 14.
Zionist regime assassinated al-Rantisi and Yasin in 2004.
Al-Qara, who is a member of the right-wing Likud Party, claimed that if Israel did not respond to the rocket fire by Hamas, "it will be a fatal blow to Israel's deterrence force."
"This will encourage Hamas and other groups in Gaza to continue firing at Israelis," al-Qara said.
Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes on several Hamas positions in Gaza late Saturday. Israeli tanks also shelled four observation towers of the Hamas-run Interior Ministry in northern Gaza.
No injuries were reported in the attacks, which the Israeli army claimed were in response to rocket fire from Gaza.
Zionist regime launched an 11-day military offensive in Gaza in May 2020, in which more than 260 Palestinians were killed and thousands of others injured. Thirteen Israelis were also killed by rocket fire from Gaza.
The violence, the worst in years, came to a halt under an Egyptian-brokered truce on May 21.