Hamas to kill Jewish children ‘anywhere’

Hamas has threatened to kill Jewish children anywhere as Israel continues its counteroffensive in the Gaza strip.

“They have legitimized the murder of their own children by killing the children of Palestine,” Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar said in a televised broadcast recorded at a secret location.

“They have legitimized the killing of their people all over the world by killing our people,” he said in the report, according to the London Times.

Islam expert Robert Spencer, director JihadWatch.org, reacted to Zahar’s threat.

“Behold the brazen hypocrisy: Hamas launches attacks from civilian areas and uses children as human shields, and then uses the deaths of Palestinian children to justify murdering Jewish children anywhere in the world,” he said 

“And the world yawns and issues another condemnation of Israel,” said Spencer.

The Times report said Zahar’s comments came as fighting intensified on the northern outskirts of Gaza City.

The top Hamas leader warned Israel Islamists would kill Jewish children in revenge, the paper reported.

Zahar, described by the Times as a hard-line political leader, read a statement, “Victory is coming, God willing.”

So far, neither side has shown the slightest intention of making the first move toward a cease-fire.

Israel says it needs to break Hamas’ ability to continue a military attack.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, according to reports, said, “We cannot accept a compromise that will allow Hamas to fire against Israeli towns in two months’ time.”

For its response, Hamas continued launching rockets into southern Israel.

 

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