Top Hamas figure killed in Israeli airstrike (IDF says, "Happy New Year, Hamas!")

MSNBC ^ | 1 Jan 09 | N/A

[elhombrelibre]

Israel assassinated a Hamas strongman Thursday in its first assault on the top leadership of Gaza's rulers, escalating a crushing aerial offensive even as it declared it was ready to launch a ground invasion.

The airstrike targeted the eight-story apartment building in the Jebaliya refugee camp that was home to Nizar Rayan, 52, ranked among Hamas' top five decision-makers in Gaza. The attack killed 12 other people including two of Rayan's four wives and four of his 12 children, Palestinian health officials said. The Muslim faith allows men to have up to four wives.

While escalating its 6-day-old military offensive against Hamas in Gaza, Israel also appeared to be sounding out a possible diplomatic exit from its campaign by demanding international monitors as a key term of any future truce.

[elhombrelibre]

Pro-IDF ping.

[SolidWood]

Have fun in hell Nazi Rayyan...

[Mojave]

Israel assassinated

MSNBC starting off the year with its usual bias.

[csvset]

Another one bites the dust.
Another one bites the dust.

And so on..

[xcamel]

Ham-A$$ gets porked.

[elhombrelibre]

I guess it's an assassination when you knowingly kill a mass murderer and its an insurgency when you randomly fire rockets into populated areas intending to kill whomever and whatever you can. The latter deserving less opprobrium by the MSM than the former. Plus, the Israelis suffer from the unfortunate circumstance of being an American ally in the “minds” of our Left Wing MSM.

[abclily]

Go Israel! Israel does the whole world a favor each time she kills a murdering barbarian in Gaza. Go Israel!

[Munz]

Wow, you mean he was actually near danger?
he was one in a million terrorists who would actually subject himself to potential danger. Must have been strapping bombs to some child or something to send them out to fight.

[JudyinCanada]

Nice start to the new year....

Godspeed, Israel.

[elhombrelibre]

Kill just one “Top Hamas” figure per day, IDF. That’s all we ask.

[astounded]

Candygram...

[MarkL]

This line:

eight-story apartment building in the Jebaliya refugee camp

shows a part of the decades long media propaganda campaign against Israel. When one hears the term "refugee camp," one thinks of "tent cities" where huddled masses line up for food and water while waiting to be taken somewhere. The so called "refugee camps" that the palis have are better known as "cities," complete with utilities (when they haven't been shut off by Hamas, or Israel due to repeated attacks), businesses, schools, and government offices.

Mark

[El Gato]

Wow, you mean he was actually near danger?

It is surprising that he was in Gaza and not Syria. He likely thought that the Israelis either did not know where he lived, or would never go after him personally.

WRONG!

[Publius6961]

Israel assassinated a Hamas strongman Thursday in its first ...

What is it with MSNBC and the MSM doofuses?

They can't have it both ways.
Either hamas is at war with Israel, or it isn't; it is either lobbing explosives at Israel, or it isn't. Israel, certainly thinks the killers in the Gaza strip are at war.

Since when does killing terrorists or enemy military units of any name assassination?
Where are the headlines announcing the assassination of Israeli citizens?

That stupid headline should read,

Israel Pest Control Campaign Kills Hamas Strongman.

It's not rocket science.

[jws3sticks]

'In šāʾ Allāh' (إن شاء الله)

[samtheman]

Later in the article it mentions Israel’s demand for international monitoring before any ceasefire. Smart of them. Make the stinking global socialists have a stake in keeping the peace.

[Publius6961]

I suppose they could have characterized the death as a fatal mugging by the insensitive joos and demanded a UN investigation and bombings a la First Rapist in Serbia...

[synbad600]

Western Union

[A CA Guy]

A good start.