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| Israel Orders Army to Destroy Hamas Buildings in Gaza | |
| 2008-01-23 | |
| The Israeli Army has been ordered to destroy Hamas structures in Gaza as part of a three-pronged strategy aimed at toppling the Islamists, a senior Israeli official told AFP yesterday. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Defense Minister Ehud Barak decided in a meeting last week to order the army to destroy “Hamas power symbols” in the Gaza Strip, he told AFP. “We have begun targeting ministries, police stations, army and government buildings that are used by Hamas in Gaza in order to weaken the regime there,” he said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The other measures against the Islamists include continuing air and ground operations against militants and rocket launching cells, as well as economic sanctions on the territory, the official said. In the first sign of the implementation of the new policy, Israeli warplanes on Friday flattened a four-story building in Gaza City used by Hamas as its Interior Ministry. The building was empty at the time, but the strike killed a woman in a nearby building and wounded dozens of others, many of them attending a wedding.
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