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Hamas Calls for "Day of Wrath" After Nizar Rayyan Killing
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by Tina Kells | January 1, 2009 at 10:59 pm
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Hamas leaders are calling for a "day of wrath" after the New Year's Day killing of senior Hamas leader Nizar Rayyan.
On it's website Hamas is asking Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and annexed east Jerusalem to mark a "day of wrath" with demonstrations against the Israeli assault on Gaza.
The Hamas call for a "day of wrath" comes as unconfirmed reports from the area say that Israeli naval and air forces attacked 20 targets over night.
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In an appeal on its website, the militant group called for "massive marches" after the weekly Muslim prayers, starting at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem and from "all the mosques in the West Bank".
"Let Friday be a day of solidarity with our people in Gaza and a day of wrath against the Zionist occupation and its settlers," the Hamas website read.
The call comes after the death of senior Hamas leader Nizar Rayyan, who was killed in an Israeli air strike overnight.
He was killed along with two of his wives and four of his children in an air strike on his house in the Jabalya refugee camp.
Rayyan has been described as one of the top five Hamas leaders in Gaza, responsible for inspiring suicide bomb attacks against Israel, including one involving one of his sons.
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at 04:03 on January 8th, 2009
No one, let alone a parent raised in a Western culture, could imagine placing children directly in harm’s way or encouraging impressionable infants to worship death but that is what the thugs and murderers responsible for the slaughter in Gaza have been doing.
It is an Islamist thing and Palestinian TV, often subsidised by the United Nations and European Union, is full of it.
In regular drama directed at kindergarten-aged children, children are taught that martyrdom is a beautiful state to aspire to, that suicide bombers are heroes and heroines and that even cartoon characters can sing and dance and murder their way into paradise.
Palestinian Media Watch and the Middle East Media Research Institute have been documenting this extraordinary perversion in recent years.