Hamas Top Commander Warns Israel on Ground Operation
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Israel will "pay a heavy price" if it launches a ground operation in the Gaza Strip, Hamas's top military commander warned in a rare audio message broadcast on Tuesday.
"The enemy will pay a heavy price if it thinks of entering Gaza," Mohammed Deif said in the audio message carried by Hamas television station Al-Aqsa.
"A ground war is the best hope of freeing the prisoners," Deif said, implying that militants would seek to capture Israeli soldiers in order to bring about a prisoner swap deal as they did last year with Israel's Gilad Shalit.
Deif is the head of Hamas's armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, a position he assumed in 2002, after the previous commander Saleh Shehadeh was killed in a massive Israeli air strike.
In 2006, Deif was badly wounded in another Israeli air strike.
He subsequently went underground, leaving most field duties to Ahmed Jaabari, his second-in-command, who was killed in an Israeli targeted killing on November 14 which sparked the current cycle of violence.
20 November 2012, 14:54
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You refer to comments of the second guy who prefers to live underground like a rat since 2006. How brave he is.
20 November 2012, 16:48
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I have been noticing that you always offend people with cuss words; this shows your lack of reasonning when it comes to expressing yourself; therfore, you resort to something that makes you less respected. The palestinians you defend have killed so many Lebanese from 1973 to 2007, but you are still not convinced...Phillipo is 100% right!
20 November 2012, 17:36
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I'd certainly like to see how the S.A.S. & the Marines will react if you start implementing "targeted assassinations" on Cameron and Obama.
I certainly wouldn't like to be living in the capital cities of the countries the assassins come from.
As far as the drones are concerned I'm sure that they have to take off from somewhere, and after seeing on TV how the Israeli target the missile launching sites in Gaza, I wouldn't like to be standing next to one of these launch sites five minutes after the drione has taken off.
