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Ibrahim HamadSalah Sehadeh May 23, 2002: Miraculously, a mega attack averted.* Arab-Muslim "Palestinian" Hamas' 'Silwan cell,'* / Sheikh Ibrahim Hamad* *, under commander Salah Shehadeh, via a remore control, attacks Pi Glilot fuel depot, nearby a heavily populated area in Tel-Aviv,* Israel. It could have killed over ten thousand people.* *

SNIPPET: “The ceasefire announced by Hamas on January 18, never a sterling example of the genre, further deteriorated on Sunday as over 15 rockets and mortar shells were fired at Israel from Gaza. That night, when Israeli planes struck back at Hamas targets, many Palestinians reported that Israel had telephoned them warnings to evacuate. There were no casualties in the strike. During Operation Cast Lead, Israel reduced Palestinian casualties with such measures as disseminating warnings in leaflets or SMS messages and dropping small, harmless bombs on rooftops before attacks. It prompted former British colonel Richard Kemp to say that “I...

War & ResponsibilityWho is to blame for the deaths of innocents in Gaza.By Nissan Ratzlav-Katz any people, in Israel and abroad, have said that the Israeli strike in Gaza against the number-two man in the terrorist Hamas organization, Salah Shehadeh, was mistaken on several levels. One criticism focuses on the large number of Arabs killed, including children, in the Gaza raid against the terrorist leader. Another criticism focuses on the policy of assassinating terrorist leaders in general, saying that, in fact, such raids do not prevent terrorism, rather they encourage retaliation by the organization thus struck. And a final...

<p>GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Described by Israel as the Gaza Strip's "most brilliant and brutal terrorist," Salah Shehadeh spent more than a decade in Israeli and Palestinian jails, and for the last three years was often in hiding as he oversaw Hamas' frequent attacks.</p>