'Revenge will be volcanic'
2004-03-25 07:35
Gaza City - The armed wing of Hamas promised Wednesday night an "unprecedented" response to the assassination by Israel two days earlier of the radical Islamic group's spiritual leader, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.
"Our action will be like a volcanic explosion, the extent of which will be unprecedented and which will strike the Zionist entity" said Mohammed Deif, chief of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, in a statement read out by one of his aides at the Yarmuk Stadium here.
The statement was addressed to tens of thousands of people congregated there, including a thousand armed members of the Brigades.
- AFP