Hamas fears Mossad closing in on Mashaal

Seven years ago, Khaled Mashaal,whose Palestinian militant group sends suicide bombers into Israel, lay dying in a Jordanian hospital after ...

Seven years ago, Khaled Mashaal,whose Palestinian militant group sends suicide bombers into Israel, lay dying in a Jordanian hospital after Israeli intelligence agents sprayed him with poison on an Amman street.

Jordan’s King Hussein intervened, forcing Israel to send the antidote that saved the Hamas leader’s life and release the group’s jailed founder in exchange for the freedom of its captured agents. Today, Israel is after Mashaal again.

“We are in a state of alert and vigilance,” he told the Associated Press this week during an unannounced visit to Cairo from his home base in the Syrian capital, Damascus.

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Mashaal surfaced in the Egyptian capital after dropping out of sight in Damascus shortly after his group blew up two buses on August 31 in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba.

The double suicide bombing, which killed 16 Israelis, was the deadliest in Israel in nearly a year. Hamas officials say all such attacks are planned and carried out by operatives in the Palestinian territories. But Israel says the attack was carried out on direct orders from Hamas leaders in Damascus and has repeatedly warned that it intends to go after them. It has also hinted it might retaliate against Syria for harbouring the group’s leadership.

Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom has said Syria’s support for terrorists “will have very clear consequences” . — PTI

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